As trouble-shooter overcoming big problems I had to manage, consult, and most of all to restructure the herd management team of the dairy herd of a farming group investment in Romania. The herd was taken over by me at a 19 liters of milk per dairy cow and day, extremely long calving interval over 450 d, urea in the herd-collecting milk often under 10, sometimes under extreme 5; totally out of date, hardly any progeny to move up, extremely high number of germs and cells, holes in the concrete were filled with silage, feed residues everywhere, a lot of mold, barn dark, closed, high ammonia concentration, several breeding bulls with no pedigree data in non-pregnant dry booths running, several cows more than 10 AI approaches, milking and barn-stall technology outdated, wrong or under-rated and defective, far too little background and knowledge about professional herd management by staff.
A lot of adjustments of the dairy herd had to be changed for the management team supported by selected external experts such as veterinarian, breeding advice with animal evaluator, insemination breeding station, strict selection, artificial insemination of self-selected and imported bulls in a targeted combination, milking technology specialists, high quality forage silage making, feed specialists, feed-mixer technology specialist, and renovation of the farm buildings and inner farm roads of the entire facility over several years with an own construction team unit.
Success: After 5 years the herd output is constant at 29 liters milk per dairy cow and day, of which about 80 dairy cows in a group at the beginning of lactation with an average of 42 liters of milk per day per dairy cow, milk cell count below 200,000, germ count below detection limit, further key data significantly improved.
Documentation and joint intensive work with herd management software is the central component also for interacting with external advice.