Breeding season: the secret of nutrition that guarantees conception and heavy calf

The arrival of the rainy season marks the moment when producers organize themselves to begin one of the most important phases of the farm's production calendar: the breeding season. The success of this phase depends, essentially, on a nutritional planning that extends throughout the year, ensuring that the females achieve the ideal body score for conception. In an interview with Market & Company, livestock specialist Vicente Albuquerque highlights that nutritional planning is not limited to the final third of gestation, but should be programmed from conception to the nursing of the calf. According to him, strategic nutrition is the factor that guarantees better pregnancy rates, less return to estrus, and, consequently, greater profitability. Check out the full interview: Nutritional planning is determined, mainly, by the physiological stage of the females and the time of year. Supplementation should be strategic, supplying what the pasture does not offer at that moment: The time ...