About the author

Jan Hulsen grew up on a farm with dairy cattle and pigs. He began studying agricultural science and then switched to veterinary medicine. After three years working as a farm vet, he started to focus on education and consultancy. To that end, he became involved in journalism, marketing and business management.

With his company Vetvice, Jan developed the CowSignals® concept, and wrote the successful CowSignals books series.

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Contents

SECTION ONE: Cleansing and coming into heat

• Nutrition
• Success factors during transition
• Introducing heifers
• Organising calving
• Calving assistance
• The newly calved cow
• The afterbirth
• Housing and management
• Monitoring the reproductive tract

SECTION TWO: Heat observation

• Success factors during heat observation
• Using aids
• Heat signals
• Oestrus cycle and cycle signals
• Time of insemination
• Heifers
• Insemination technique
• Standard procedures
• Insemination and organisation

SECTION THREE: Getting and staying in calf

• Many embryos are lost
• Less stress, less embryo loss
• Nutrition
• Pregnancy diagnosis
• Not in calf: now what?
• Learning more about the pregnancy
• Embryo transfer and OPU
• The bull
• Abortion

SECTION FOUR: Targets, performance indicators, process management

• Management
• Process management
• Key figures and breeding
• How cattle farmers in other countries do it
• Inducing heat and hormone programmes
• Economics
• UNOs

INDEX

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This book weighs: 200g

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