On the other hand, if bulls are not able to cover heifers in heat, maybe adding another bull or replacing the current bull with a more aggressive breeder are options. Another benefit to breeding ...

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30 to 60 days before breeding season. Zoca shares these factors that can affect bull fertility and ability to get cows bred. Heat and cold stress can both affect fertility. Heat stress decrease sperm ...

Armagh farmer David McCarragher milks 80 Holstein Friesian cows alongside wife Stacey, father Melvin, and brother Andrew.

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have ...

High-end heifers saw northern buyers battle with local farmers to secure lots, with exporters coming out on top for the most part. The reader loyalty code gives you full access to the site from when ...

Cattle and humans have an intertwined history; people have been raising cattle for meat and hides for thousands of years.

It makes more sense to use a good bull as an average or below average one when going to the trouble of AI, writes Aidan ...