{"id":2557,"date":"2025-01-01T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:12:21","slug":"tip-van-de-maand-januari-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/2025\/01\/01\/tip-van-de-maand-januari-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Month &#8211; January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Replacement percentage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On farms we encounter replacement percentages of 50% to less than 20%. This concerns heifers that are needed for annual replacement in the herd.<\/p>\n<p>During presentations I often show the list below. How, in my estimation, does the living environment influence this economically very interesting figure.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you have 100 dairy cows,<br \/>\nhow big do I estimate the influence on the replacement percentage to be? :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A good selection \/ straw pen after VMS:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 \u2013\u00a0 5\u00a0 cows<\/li>\n<li>Comfortable cubicles with nice bedding:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05 \u2013 10 cows<\/li>\n<li>Claw care prior to drying off:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05 \u2013 10 cows<\/li>\n<li>Safe, dry, walking paths with good grip:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2 \u2013\u00a0 5\u00a0 cows<\/li>\n<li>Dry cows and heavily pregnant heifers<br \/>\nhaving plenty of room to move:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 \u2013\u00a0 5\u00a0 cows<\/li>\n<li>Extra structure and condition maintenance for dry cows:\u00a0 \u00a0 5 \u2013 10 cows<\/li>\n<li>2-Minute-Check at each round of the barn:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05 \u2013 10 cows<\/li>\n<li>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The better the conditions are in order, the lower the rearing costs you have, the easier the cows walk and produce and the more space you have to select in the bottom of the herd.<\/p>\n<p>Fertility does not appear in such an overview, but resistance does \u2026.!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacement percentage. On farms we encounter replacement percentages of 50% to less than 20%. This concerns heifers that are needed for annual replacement in the herd. During presentations I often show the list below. How, in my estimation, does the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tip-van-de-maand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}