Maarten Boers

Maarten, born and bred in The Netherlands surrounded by dairy cows, graduated from the University of Ghent, Belgium, specialising in ruminant medicine, and has worked in the UK since 2001.

Bull Testing Review

Cattle / By Maarten Boers

So the month is here that I analyse the previous year’s bull testing data. In 2020 there were 367 Bull Pre Breeding Soundness Examinations performed in the practice. One third of these were pre-sale while the remaining ones were pre mating and most of these bulls had been tested in previous year(s). Dismissing reasons for …

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Mar 2 2021March 2, 2021

Flask semen checks

Cattle / By Maarten Boers

As most Autumn calving dairy herds are about to start mating I have been checking flask semen again. This year I was accompanied by developers of a mobile device that assesses semen quality by computer camera. They wanted to put their prototype to the test. We spent a whole day going from farm to farm …

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Nov 11 2020November 30, 2020