5. FERTILITY

Fertility, being a luxury function for a cow, can be affected by various factors.
Main causes for infertility:

→Stray voltage
→Alkaline water (pH 8.2+)
→Contaminated water.
→High iron water.
→Continuous use of iodine, which causes small ovaries, or cystic ovaries.
→Retained placenta causing metritis
→Demineralization (high producing cows)
→Leucosis, neospora, I.B.R. etc.
→Inadequate drainage (excess of fermentable soluble nitrogen at the beginning of
lactation)
→Rumen acidosis
→Deficiency in long structural fibres = dry hay.

5.1 Silent heat or sub-oestrus

Specific causes:

Hypoglycaemia during peak lactation compensated by excessive weight loss, de-mineralization, especially in winter.
Metabolic Type no 3 with deficiency in rapidly digested carbohydrates.
Metabolic Type no 7, deficiency in soluble nitrogen during peak lactation
Ask your specialist for ration evaluation.

5.2 Anoestrus (absence of ovulation cycle)

Specific causes:

True hypoglycaemia during peak lactation, with rumen instability. Metabolic Type no 4, general energy deficiency.

Protocol of silent heat and anoestrus:

First identify and correct causes:
a) Acidify the pH if the water is too alkaline.
b) If the ovaries are small, avoid using iodine teat dip.

c) Silent heat and anoestrus:
DRAINSOL 3 times
MINSOL two times a day for 5 days
HEATSOL two times a day for 3 days, then 2 times a week until the heat come back.

d) If there is excessive iodine, small ovaries or luteinic cysts, instead of HEATSOL, give CYSTSOL twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.

e) To increase the odds for pregnancy,

give DRAINSOL, twice, MINSOL and SEPTISOL just before and after breeding, then HEATSOL during breeding.

f) In the presence of uterine infection or cloudy discharge

, this infection must first be treated with METSOL and SEPTISOL, if the discharge is white, use METSOL and SEPTISOL two times a week, for 3 weeks.

5.3 Cystic ovaries

Observation:

Cysts on the ovaries, thick uterus, irregular heats, nymphomania or aggressiveness.

Cause:

Sycotic constitution, retention of toxins, rapid weight gain, excess of fast sugars (metabolic Type no 1, prone to swelling FLAMESOL+DRAINSOL), excess of iodine (teat dip).
Urea excess in food.

Protocol:

Give DRAINSOL 3 times, CYSTSOL twice a day for 5 days, MINSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, then HEATSOL, twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.

5.4 Luteinic cyst

Observation:

Uterine tubes, ovaries and even uterus full of pus, persistency of the yellow mass, sometimes abdominal pain, infertility.

Cause:

A side effect of artificial cycling, overloaded liver and sycotic constitution with weight gain, slow thyroid

Protocol:

Give DRAINSOL 3 times, CYSTSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, MINSOL 2 times a day for 5 days, EDEMASOL once a day for 3 days, then HEATSOL twice a day for 3 days, then twice a week until in heat.

Notice the « Thyroid Spot » a darker area at the base of the neck. When this spot is larger, the master gland, the thyroid is more active, fertility is better because ovaries are in full function, driven by the master gland. When this spot is the size of a tennis ball, fertility is lessened, for the same reasons.

Labo Solidago has been offerering since 1990 solutions to dairy farmers whose cows, sheeps or goats suffer from different ailments like mastitis, acute mastitis or toxic mastitis or chronic mastitis, footrot, different infections, like vaginitis or metritis, pneumonia and bronchitis, arthritis, acidosis and acetonemia, retention of the placenta, with signs like high somatic cell counts (leucocytes), slow growth and diarrhea in calves and cows.