Are you making common mistakes within your property that could be harming your results? Check out the most common mistakes we identified below and see the importance of not making any more mistakes and avoiding losses to the herd’s performance, and thus, to your pocket.
1 – Not having a defined mounting station.
Yes, this is very important and it is a very common mistake. It makes us unsure and unable to measure our results. In other words, how many calves are you weaning per year, how many kilos are you weaning per exposed cow.
2 – Believing that it is not necessary to carry out reproductive exams on breeders.
Yes, we need to make it androgynous because if we don’t do it we run the risk of spreading a reproductive disease or also having an infertile bull within our herd.
3 – Place cows in low body condition during the breeding season.
Yes, it is a risk to make this mistake and we could be reaping these negative results in the next breeding season. If we do not place a cow in very good or average body condition, we cause that cow to become pregnant with a low body score, a low nutritional condition and she may lose her calf or even not get pregnant, which is also very harmful. for your business.
4 – Believing that we don’t need to stop the rodeo.
Yes, it is a very common mistake. We need to implement this within the farm’s routine, which is two to three times a week to stop the rodeo with the cows and bulls so that they can identify the cows that are in heat to cover them.
And now, thinking a little about calves/calfs.
5 – Not carrying out health planning.
When we have a breeding season that is very common at 90 days, 120 days or even 150 days, the calf/calf that is born first and the calf that is born last, has a very large gap between them. A very common mistake is to have the health calendar stipulated for just one calving period. We need to make this lambing divided.
Depending on the size of the herd every 15 days or every 30 days. Because calves/calfs aged 45 days and 60 days must be dewormed and vaccinated. And if we don’t do this with the first calf/calf and the last calf separately, that calf/calf that was born first will receive a benefit very late and then there will be a risk of losing performance.
6 – Treat calves with ticks at the same intensity and frequency as their mothers.
This is a very common mistake. We’re going to take the cattle through the hose, we’re going to carry out sanitary management and apply a tick killer. But a very important fact is to understand that the calf/calf up to 13 months of age cannot be treated with a tick, as it has the mother’s immunity. So during this period until 3 months of age, the mother is treated and the calf/calf is not.
If we treat it, which is a very common mistake, what will happen is that we are running a very high risk of having a calf/calf without immunity and that it will have bovine parasitic disease in its adult life or, which impacts the In the short and medium term, this animal will lose performance, because it may also have subclinical sadness, which causes it to lose weight, end up losing performance, lose results and, thus, lose money.
