Hormonal Management Of The Postpartum Cow
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19965923Keywords:
performance, postpartum evaluation, routine palpation, freshening, fetal membrane, retainedAbstract
Our goal was to design a system to both improve the performance of the cow and to create a situation where I could personally do a postpartum evaluation sometime during the lactation, but eliminate a large portion of routine palpations because of the size of our herds and the management's lack of willingness to pay for the additional time.
Our program is really quite straightforward. We had developed a real appreciation for Fenprostalin, but as you know it is not on the market now. For years, we ran our program with 2cc of Fenprostalin within 12 hours of freshening if at all possible, but because it is very difficult to ascertain what portion of the fetal membranes were retained, we injected every cow.
