21 Mar Repeat Breeder Cow syndrome – A bottleneck in milk production
गांय में फिरने की समस्या - दूध उत्पादन में एक बाधा Fertility is the most essential criterion for the success of the food animal husbandry. Regular and timely conception and calving is very essential for profit oriented dairy keeping. In cattle, especially in cross bred cattle, many farmers’ experience this unwarranted and loss making condition called Repeat Breeding. In this, cows will come to heat regularly but they fail to conceive after successful mating. This repeat breeding will incur expenditure by cost of repeated inseminations, cost of management of this condition, cost of feeding without production, loss of milk due delayed conception. We can call a cow “repeat breeder” only when it should have calved early, coming to heat, inseminated with good quality semen but remains unconceived for more than 2 – 3 consecutive times. Repeat breeding detrimentally affects the cost-effective programme of one calf per year in cows and 2 calves in three years in buffaloes. RBC syndrome is per se a group of sign but the reasons are multiple and combinations. This condition very commonly observed only in cross bred cattle. Jersey and Holstein cross bred cattle are very commonly affected in our country. Among them also, aged cattle at their 4th or 5th calving are very vulnerable. But young cow at their 2nd...