Repeat breeding is an expensive hitch at every level of dairy products, from small scale to large scale. It affects the profitability of dairy cattle, thus increasing the age at first calving in heifers, extending the inter-calving period each time insemination fails, and decreasing the calf crop at last.
Dr Hemlata Telluri, Veterinarian
When a Cow is called a Repeat Breeder?
A cow is called a repeat breeder when it.
1. failed to conceive even after three or more services
2. has a normal oestrus cycle length
3. no abnormality in the vaginal discharge
4. no palpable abnormality in the reproductive tract
5. has calved at least once before and
6. less than ten years of age
It is the best to give to the animal family at home or farm & it is not expensive, contraindicative, no side effect. It works on the principle “the law of similar.”
Homeopathy is a chosen medicine widely used by veterinary around the world in addition to any line of treatment because it has no side effects or contraindications.
Different types of Repeat Breeders
An early repeater is an animal in which the most probable event could be either failure of fertilization or early embryonic death. The cows return to heat within 17-24 days after AI.
A late repeater is a cow in which heat is observed later than 25 days after AI.
Reason for the repeat breeding in cattle
The underlying reasons for a cow becoming a repeat breeder could be many of which anatomical, functional, infectious, and managemental causes are the main.
· Fibrous fallopian tubes
· Failure of nidation of the fertilized ovum
· Deficiency of Progesterone
· Specific and non-specific uterine infections associated with fertilization failure or early embryonic mortality
· Clinical or sub-clinical endometritis
· Bacterial or mycotic endometritis
· Improper semen handling
· Poor hygiene at the time of calving and A.I
· Poor management and handling of frozen semen or poor quality semen
· High ambient temperature and humidity, stress.
Genetic or chromosomal abnormalities,
This reason of the repeat breeder is common in Jersey and Holstein.
Age, higher incidences of repeat breeding are seen in old cows.
How to identify a Repeat Breeder?
Diagnosis of repeat breeding in cattle is itself a challenging task. Heat record maintenance is a must to find out whether a cow is an early heat repeater or a late heat repeater. Cows that have had three services and are not pregnant should be checked before serving again by a veterinarian.
Management tips for cows showing Repeat Breeding
The following guidelines are recommended if no specific cause has been identified.
1. Bringing the animal into positive nutritive balance.
2. Micronutrients and vitamin supplementation such as Se, Zn, Cu, Mn, and vitamin A, D, and E daily.
3. Use of good quality semen having more than 50 percent progressive forward motility.
4. Insemination of the cow at the right time of the estrum. AI twice at 12 to the 24-hour interval.
6. After AI, clitoral massage or 100 micrograms of GnRH or 1500 IU of the luteinizing hormone can be administered to stimulate ovulation.
7. Skip the AI, administer 1 million units of penicillin in saline twice at 12 hours intervals during estrum.
8. Flushing the uterus with normal saline with moderate pressure to remove cellular debris or mild blocks in oviducts.
9. Sexual rest for two consecutive cycles and breeding.
Best Homeopathic Remedy for Repeat Breeding
FERTISULE, a 21 Days Course for Cattle, the cattle homeopathic medicine is one such wonder formulation specially formulated with all the necessary remedies that could relieve the animal from all the known causes of repeat breeding. It is recommended for all the animals where every other alternative did not work. This unique formulation was brought up by the leading Homeopathic Veterinary Medicine producing company The Goel Vet Pharma. The company is certified under WHO GMP practices which highlight its hygienic manufacturing facilities. All the available formulations had undergone many clinical and field trials, thus gaining trust among many veterinarians and livestock owners all over India.
