MANHATTAN – As the fall calving season wraps up, Kansas State University cow-calf specialist Jason Warner encourages cattle producers to consider tracking a few key numbers to help them make more informed management decisions for the year ahead.
“It’s a great time to come back and take a look at the metrics we are seeing with a given group of cows and females to help navigate decision making,” Warner said.
Warner outlined three primary metrics producers should consider when reviewing herd data this season: conception percentage, calving percentage and weaning percentage.
Conception Percentage
Warner said the first step is determining conception rate, which begins with identifying how many females were exposed to breeding and how many became pregnant.
“The first thing is what is your conception percentage?” Warner said. “It is being able to identify what that group was exposed to (during) breeding and the number (that got) pregnant — what’s that percentage?”
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