What’s happening in the world of dairy fertility? Mid-monthly updates help you keep track of news and current events.
Dairy can now breed for feed efficiency
Date: February 24, 2015
Dairy Futures CRC and the Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS) launched the Feed Saved Australian Breeding Value (ABV).
The new genomic ABV indicates the feed consumed for a given level of production and will be published from in April in all ADHIS publications including the Good Bulls Guide.
Dairy super sire Shottle dies
Date: February 24, 2015
One of the world’s most influential dairy bulls, Shottle, has died at his retirement home in the UK, leaving a genetic legacy of 100,000 daughters.
Holstein triplets born
Date: March 30, 2015
Will and Lee Scott, Cobrico Meadows Holsteins, Cobden, witnessed something last week that many dairy farmers will never see in a lifetime – the birth of Holstein triplets.
The odds for such a birth, with all three calves being the same sex (heifers), are estimated to be one in 2 million.
Dairy breeding changes afoot
Date: April 13, 2015
The Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS) has officially launched three new breeding indices, new breeding values for feed saved and residual survival, updated type expression and made other refinements to the Australian Breeding Values (ABV).
Calf sells for record $112,000
Date: April 21, 2015
A three-month Holstein calf sold for a record $112,000 in Gippsland today.
Have I missed anything of note for the month? Let us know in the comments below.
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