Dairy Reproduction Articles

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Reproductive Management

• AI Sire Fertility   
• Benchmarks for Evaluating Reproductive Performance of the Dairy Herd NEW
• Complex Vertebral Malformation (CVM) 
• Cow Comfort and Reproductive Performance NEW
• Dairy Cattle Reproductive Reality Check #1:  We Have Tried to Fool Mother Nature
• Dairy Cattle Reproductive Reality Check #2:  Reasonable Fertility
• GIT-R-Done Approach to Dairy Reproduction
• Good Footing Improves Estrous Detection 
• Heat Detection Basics
• Heat Detection - Influence of Herdmates  
• Heat Detection is Part of Your Life... Deal With It 
• Herdmate’s Reproductive Status Influences Heat Detection
• Higher Production and Twinning 
• Inefficient Heat Detection Is Devastating
• It Is About to Get Serious About Getting Dairy Cows Pregnant 
• Negative Energy Balance and Conception Rates 
• Relatively Old and New Ways to Measure Reproductive Performance 
• Proper Timing of Insemination Is Important
• Sexed Semen 
• Timing of Insemination and Gender Ratio
• Ways to Measure Dairy Reproductive Performance NEW
• When to Start Breeding after Calving

Heat Stress and Reproductive Performance

• Get Cows Pregnant Before it Gets Hot
• Heat, Humidity and Dairy Cattle Reproduction

Natural Service Versus AI

• Natural Service Is Not the Solution
• Use an AI Sire as the Cleanup Bull

Heifer Artifical Insemination

• Three Reasons Why  Dairy Heifer AI is a Good Thing

Synchronization Protocols for Milking Cows

• Corbin-Heerschesynch NEW
• Improved Ovsynch Protocol NEW
• Ovsynch Can Help the Heat Detection Challenged
• Using a Synovec-H Treated Animal as a Heat Detection Aid 

Synchronization Protocols for Heifers

• Benefits of Artificial Insemination and Estrus-Synchronization of Dairy Heifers
• New Estrus-Synchronization Product Available for Dairy Heif