Thing to do before calving.
Having an appropriate calving place that has good grass and plenty of water (moving water) to ensure recovery of the females after the calving.
Have ready the roosts clean to ensure proper rotation and avoid the presence of some diseases com diarrhea.
Having iodine, ready to be used correctly in disinfecting the navel and thereby prevent the entry of different enfermeades like piosepticemia cord.
Things we do during the calving
Ensure that the number of animals entering the farrowing extension relates to a grassland to prevent overpopulation would cause overgrazing.
Observe carefully every morning to pregnant animals, and keeping track of those showing signs of labor, to help if they can not give birth or present some problems as childbirth distosic (difficult birth).
Ensure that the female has given birth. this with her newborn calf, to avoid being denied.
Observe that labor ends with the expulsion of the placenta to avoid complications in the parturient mother's uterus.
What we should do after calving
Allow the mother to develop her character maternal breeding.
Immediately disinfected with iodine, the navel of the newborn.
Ensure that the new calf take its first milk or colostrum within the first hours after birth. If you can not do on their own, subjecting the mother to suckle the calf.
Avoid at all times meet parturient females to males, because for breeding must have a break of 15 postpartum days. This will garanriza the uterus or womb return to normal size.
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