Very frustrated- hope someone can help.
Uncle has a 20 cow herd. every single one has come back from breeding twice now. The bull was tested and checked out fine but will be tested again on thursday. He has been having problems with cows settling for about 3 years now and it has gottenworse each year to the point of none settling this year. The herd was tested for the common diseases( vibriosis, lepto,ect.) last winter and were vaccinated this spring for all the above. He summed it up to be a low fertility bull problem. this year- new bull- no settling. Hard to beleive it could be 3 bad bulls in a row. Was told by another farmer in the area that years ago he had a disease in his dairy herd that acted like this. He thought it started with a K- can't find any cattle breeding diseases that start with K.
Any ideas??
Uncle has a 20 cow herd. every single one has come back from breeding twice now. The bull was tested and checked out fine but will be tested again on thursday. He has been having problems with cows settling for about 3 years now and it has gottenworse each year to the point of none settling this year. The herd was tested for the common diseases( vibriosis, lepto,ect.) last winter and were vaccinated this spring for all the above. He summed it up to be a low fertility bull problem. this year- new bull- no settling. Hard to beleive it could be 3 bad bulls in a row. Was told by another farmer in the area that years ago he had a disease in his dairy herd that acted like this. He thought it started with a K- can't find any cattle breeding diseases that start with K.
Any ideas??