Features of Reproduction of Dairy Cattle of the “Levochsky” Breeding Enterprise of the Novgorod Region

Abstract

In modern conditions of intensification of dairy cattle breeding, it is necessary to increase or maintain at a certain level the livestock of cattle. With a general decrease in the indicators of the dairy cattle breeding industry in the region under study, it is necessary to search for ways and methods of organizing production that would improve the efficiency of the manufactured products. As an example, the results of the work of a breeding farm are offered, which successfully solves the problems facing it in the reproduction of the breeding stock and receives seven thousandth milk yield with a high content of mass fraction of fat in milk from farmed cows. In the course of the research, the features of herd reproduction in the breeding reproducer of Ayrshir cattle of the agricultural production cooperative “Levochsky” in the Novgorod region were studied. The article presents tabular data with the main indicators of reproduction of the studied breeding reproducer and an analysis of these data. The conducted research shows that the breeding reproducer of the agricultural production cooperative “Levochsky” successfully solves the issues of reproduction of its dairy herd applying modern methods and technologies of livestock breeding. But for a stable position of the enterprise as a breeding farm, it is necessary to increase the output of calves per hundred cows to at least 85%. In the course of research, the authors found that in order to achieve real success in dairy production, it is necessary to engage not only in reproduction, but also in selection and breeding work in general. Based on the studies carried out, well-grounded conclusions were made about the need to further increase the efficiency of work on the reproduction of the breeding stock of the studied breeding reproducer.