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Milking Two Or Five Times Daily In The Presence Of A Cow’S Own Nonsuckling Calf Fails To Prolong Postpartum Anovulation, G.C. Lamb, K. E. Thompson, J.S. Heldt, C.A. Löest, Jeffrey S. Stevenson
Milking Two Or Five Times Daily In The Presence Of A Cow’S Own Nonsuckling Calf Fails To Prolong Postpartum Anovulation, G.C. Lamb, K. E. Thompson, J.S. Heldt, C.A. Löest, Jeffrey S. Stevenson
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
Three treatments were initiated at approximately 15 days after calving and continued for 4 weeks: 1) cows were suckled ad libitum by their calves (calf present [CP]); 2) calves were present but nonsuckling 24 hr/day and cows were milked twice daily (CR+2xM); 3) or same as CR+2xM but cows were milked five times daily (CR+5xM). Interval to the first postpartum ovulation was similar between CR+2xM and CR+5xM cows but about 2 weeks less than that in cows suckled ad libitum by their own calves. Cows in the CR+5xM treatment produced more milk than cows in the CR+2xM treatment, whereas only …