Cow Comfort and Reproductive Performance

In Cows farm, we make dry to pregnant cows at-least two months before her expected calving date. Does this rule applies on non-pregnant cows. ? Shall we make dry to milking (non-pregnant) cows on completing 300 days of milking. Please share your views in the topic. regards

it does not make sense to keep such cows for a productive farm. If the cows is producing milk continously for 300 days but does not conceive it qualifies to be culled. In karachi cattle market farmers are not interested in calving but only in milk production and once the cow is exhausted in milk production it is replaced so the purpose of such dairy farm should be well defined.

This is one strategy of dairy management , getting as much milk as possible from the cow regardless and not paying attention to the reproduction and new pregnancy The followers of such strategy depends totally of the price of the new replacement pregnant cows . their argument is that the cost of the new pregnant cow from outside the farm is cheaper that the cost of getting the cow pregnant of raising heifer replacement in the farm . In my opinion such strategy has many negative aspects such as: 1) what is the fate and future of the farm if the many people adapt such strategy and the demand on pregnant cows increase and the prices go high 2) the farm will loose and miss the cumulative know how the is supposed to be acquired in the field of reproduction and replacement management 3) raising the replacement in the farm will have better control on the quality of the replacement animals better than the purchased ones ..