The ICBF animal search facility has had over 4.16 million individual hits for the year 2018. This is an impressive statistic and shows just how much dairy and beef farmers, including people from the breeding industry value the animal search. (more…)
According to AHI, one important aspect of the dry period is Dry-Cow Therapy (DCT). This is the treatment of cows at the end of lactation with a long acting antibiotic and/or an internal teat sealer. Using DCT is one of the components of an effective mastitis control programme. (more…)
ICBF Milk Recording Profiles are specially developed for you to compare and analyse your herd performance with ease. Using these profiles allows you to make more informed breeding, culling and management decisions for your herd. (more…)
Heteropaternal twins refers to twins with different sires. A new study by ICBF reveals how many twin calves have different sires. Twining rates in cattle range from 1% to 5% depending on the breed with dairy breeds typically having the highest rates. (more…)
It could be, but the presence of a tissue tag in an animal’s ear does not automatically mean that the animal has a genomic evaluation. The tag merely shows that a tissue sample was physically taken from the animal. There are a number of steps after this before an animal receives a genomic evaluation. (more…)
John Joe Croke is a dairy farmer from Balloughboy, Ballingarry near Thurles, Co. Tipperary. John Joe farms in partnership with his wife Anne and son Kevin (pictured), who are very much involved in this busy farm. (more…)
Reliability or Rel is the measure of accuracy or degree of confidence in the genetic index for a particular animal. Reliability is important when assessing an index (more…)
Auroch Deuter PP has a replacement index of €148 @65% reliability and a terminal index of €94 @ 89% reliability on his latest genomic proof (May 2018). (more…)