April 2016 WellnessPRO Sires

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CLARIFIDE® PLUS OFFERS INNOVATIVE GENETIC PREDICTIONS FOR DAIRY WELLNESS TRAITS • Prevention and treatment of events that adversely impact animal health require dairy producers to invest significant time, energy and finances, not to mention the cost of lost production and the risk of mortality • CLARIFIDE® Plus from Zoetis offers dairy producers the opportunity to more accurately identify and select animals based on wellness traits including mastitis, lameness, metritis, retained placenta, displaced abomasum and ketosis • In addition to individual trait results, CLARIFIDE Plus provides two indexes—Dairy Wellness Profit Index™ (DWP$™) and Wellness Trait Index™ (WT$™)—that describe differences in lifetime profitability including the new wellness trait genetic information

IMPACT OF HEALTH EVENTS Incidence/Lactation Range Cost ($) per Case Culling Risk1 Mastitis

12 – 40% 1,2,3,4,8,13 2,4,6,13

Lameness

10 – 48%

Metritis

2 – 37% 1,3,10,11,13

Retained Placenta Displaced Abomasum Ketosis

5 – 15% 3 – 5%

1,2,3,4,11,12

1,2,3,4,13

5 – 14%

1,3,4,13

$155 – 224 4,8,9 $177 – 469

4,7

$300 – 358 10,11 $206 – 315 $494

4,12

4

$117 – 289

32.7 162 17.1 31.7 26.9

4,5

32.5


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