{"id":19,"date":"2011-04-21T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grasslands.kormak.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:48:33","slug":"group-discussion-on-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/group-discussion-on-fertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Discussion On Fertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I was given time away from Clive Hall Farm today, but only allowed as far as a local farm in Congleton. I met up again with a small group of farmers within the monitor farm group to discuss fertility \u2013 an important topic for us spring block calving units at this time of year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As the Unit Manager for the monitor farm, I was asked about our recent farm activity. I <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">shared with them that this year the cows started bulling from late March, and the target was to have 80% of the tail paint rubbed off by the end of April, with the remaining 20% of cows obviously having not expressed heat.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I stated that I needed to focus on those 20% of cows at this point to improve the chance of cycling. I would use the help of Ed Haynes our vet from Wright and Morten Vets to check their reproductive tracts with an ultrasound scanner. We would also consider diet, grass\/nutrition and consider a small group of problem cows being milked once per day. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given time away from Clive Hall Farm today, but only allowed as far as a local farm in Congleton. I met up again with a small group of farmers within the monitor farm group to discuss fertility \u2013 an important topic for us spring block calving units at this time of year. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasslands-uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}