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Ovsynch Breeding Program for Dairy Cows

2001· article· en· W3163409055 on OpenAlexaff
S.J. LeBlanc

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Bovine Practitioner · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicReproductive Physiology in Livestock
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtificial inseminationInseminationOvulationHerdAnimal scienceDairy cattleEstrus synchronizationAgricultural scienceBiologyPregnancy

Abstract

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Heat detection is the single biggest impediment to improved reproductive performance in many dairy herds. Recently, a program for synchronization of ovulation ("Ovsynch") has been developed, which allows for breeding by scheduled artificial insemination. This paper reviews the literature on synchronization of ovulation in lactating dairy cows, and evaluates the economic impact of using the Ovsynch program. Ovsynch offers a method to reliably achieve timely pregnancies without heat detection initially. It increases the rate of insemination and allows control over time to first breeding, while having minimal impact on conception rate. In herds with poor or average heat detection, Ovsynch is economically beneficial as a first line reproductive management program for the herd.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.798
Threshold uncertainty score0.370

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations9
Published2001
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