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WELLNESS IS A PROFITABLE CHOICE
BUILD A HEALTHIER HERD THROUGH GENETICS
Genomic testing with CLARIFIDE® Plus can help identify Holstein and Jersey females with the greatest potential to help reach herd health and profitability goals from calves to cows.
- Health events have a significant impact on herd health, saleable milk and producer profitability.
- Profitability is enhanced when a dairy has the advantage of mature cows that are productive and healthy for multiple lactations. To reach their full potential and longevity, animals need to remain healthy from birth until calving, and then cows must stay healthy and be reproductively sound, in addition to producing milk.
- Eight cow wellness traits, three new calf wellness traits, and three novel fertility traits were developed from millions of dairy cattle within U.S. commercial herds, using cutting edge genetic evaluation methodology. Wellness and fertility traits are expressed as genomic Standardized Transmitting Abilities (STA), similar to how type traits are expressed, but using a different scale and where 100 is average and higher values are more desirable, indicating a reduced risk of disease or mortality.
- Wellness and fertility traits are expressed as genomic Standardized Transmitting Abilities (STA), similar to how type traits are expressed, but using a different scale and where 100 is average and higher values are more desirable, indicating a reduced risk of disease or mortality.
- First year external field study results showed that the lowest 25 percent of genomic animals for their respective disease risks in each herd are approximately two times more likely to have mastitis, lameness, metritis, displaced abomasum, retained placenta and ketosis than the best 25 percent of animals genomically.1
For more information on CLARIFIDE Plus, please download:
- Key Messages & Frequently Asked Questions
- Detailer
- Wellness Traits for Cows Technical Bulletin
- Calf Wellness Traits Technical Bulletin
- Wellness Traits for Cows Fact Sheet
- Calf Wellness Traits Fact Sheet
- Profit Index Fact Sheet
- CLARIFIDE Plus Enhances Key Financial Drivers of Net Farm Income
- Jersey Plus Index Fact Sheet
- Jersey Plus Technical Bulletin
CLARIFIDE® Plus offers U.S. Holstein and Jersey producers the most comprehensive package of trait predictions and economic indexes compared to other indexes health events to empower genetic selection strategies.
- The use of Dairy Wellness Profit Index® (DWP$ ®) would be expected to offer similar selection emphasis to that achieved by Net Merit (NM$) on traditional traits, but applies additional selection emphasis on Zoetis cow & calf wellness traits (listed below) and fertility traits (cow abortion, cystic ovary, and twinning) for more informed rankings to help increase potential lifetime profitability
- Wellness Trait Index® (WT$®) estimates differences in expected lifetime profit associated with risk of diseases in cows (mastitis, lameness, metritis, retained placenta, displaced abomasum,ketosis, cow respiratory, and milk fever (Jersey only)) in addition to adding the economic value for the polled gene
- The Calf Wellness Index™ (CW$™) estimates the difference in expected lifetime profit associated with risk of calfhood diseases and early death losses by including calf livability, calf respiratory disease and calf scours.
- DWP$ differs from other economic indexes because it includes predictions for economically important diseases in cows and calves. By including more characteristics affecting profitability, DWP$ describes more genetic variation in profitability than other indexes.
- With the use of DWP$, producers can potentially make approximately $47 more profit per selected female over 10 years using a 15% culling selection strategy (not including the value of additional offspring), even when test cost is higher than a NM$-based ranking.2
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Email this page to yourself or a friend- McNeel AK, Reiter BC, Weigel D, Osterstock J, Di Croce FA. Validation of genomic predictions for wellness traits in US Holstein cows. J Dairy Sci. 2017;100:9115–9124.
- Data on file, January 2018, Zoetis Inc.
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