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c ntents magazine no. 01 | february 2016 | volume 7 skottorp ? 720
cows
and 11,550 kg ecm 4 breeding programme 2015 7 strong et work in viking 7 vikinggenetics international 2015 8 an open breeding programme 9 are you interested in genetics? 9 around the vikingworld 12 sires in focus 19 2015 in figures the world is changing. earlier a few
bulls
gave a lot of royalty to their owners, today many breeders share the royalty money, and no single breeder gets a fortune! there are very few
bulls
that are used in 30,000 inseminations, while a few years ago single
bulls
could be used in more than 100,000 doses. only young
bulls
are in the top of the use in the home market, while on the export market, still proven
bulls
are most used, even though the trend is towards more young
bulls
.
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6 procross more profitable at high herd management levels more live calves, less reproductive cost, a higher survival rate and a similar, even high- er production. with these characteristics, the first generation montbéliarde and vikingred crosses are more profitable than purebred holstein
cows
, according to research at the university of minnesota on eight large-scale high performance dairy herds.
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10 research and development ? always benefit the farmers genomic selection, feed efficiency and male fertility are core focus for vikingge- netics? r&d. cattle breeding has undergone a revolution the past five to eight years with the introduction of genomic selection.
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11 10 years old and still going strong the docka cow is one of the good old
cows
that is still going strong and was classified 91 points after her 8 th calf!
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17 only 6% difference in fertility between sexed and conventional doses farmers should be less worried about the fertility of their
cows
as differences in fer- tility between sexed and conventional se- men has been reduced. this is a clear pro- gress!
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