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Breeding / Calving Issues
I think it’s an inbreeding problem
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1657504" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>4th and 5th abortion this year? </p><p>Over what time period? Are we talking over the last month or so, or spread out over the entire 12 month period? </p><p>How many cows in the herd? If you only have 20, that's a big hit... if you have 1000, 4 or 5 is not necessarily out of line. </p><p>Have you had any diagnostic testing performed on any of them? I'd want to rule out infectious/toxic causes of abortion before I started chasing some nebulous 'inbreeding' issue.</p><p></p><p>The fetus with the 'deformed' head looks to have had a meningocele and cheiloschisis(cleft lip) - both of which are congenital defects, but not heritable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1657504, member: 12607"] 4th and 5th abortion this year? Over what time period? Are we talking over the last month or so, or spread out over the entire 12 month period? How many cows in the herd? If you only have 20, that's a big hit... if you have 1000, 4 or 5 is not necessarily out of line. Have you had any diagnostic testing performed on any of them? I'd want to rule out infectious/toxic causes of abortion before I started chasing some nebulous 'inbreeding' issue. The fetus with the 'deformed' head looks to have had a meningocele and cheiloschisis(cleft lip) - both of which are congenital defects, but not heritable. [/QUOTE]
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