The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of post partum disorders on productive and reproductive performance of Holstein cows, from a dairy experimental station, during 24 years. Productive and reproductive data were collected from 350 cows. Analyses of variance was conducted to evaluate the effects of occurrence of post partum disorders (abortion, stillbirth, dystocia, retained placenta) and mastitis on calving interval (IEP), calving to conception interval (IPC), calving to first estrus interval (IPPC), number of estrus before conception (NC) and milk production (PL). The mean age at first estrus was 29.4 months and the mean age at first calving was 37.1 months. Mean IEP was 14.6 months, mean IPPC was 97.04 days and median IPC was 150.71 days. Median interestrus interval was 24 days, suggesting problems in a estrus detection. A significant effect of occurrence of abortion (P<0.05) was observed on IEP. Calving intervals were 258 days longer in the cows that aborted than in the ones that did not abort. The occurrence of stillbirth (P<0.01) and dystocia (P<0.05) significantly increased IEP in 82.4 days and 136.1 days, respectively. The IPPC was not affected by any of the diseases considered. Milk production was affected by dystocia (P<0.05). Cows that had dystocia produced 380.5kg less milk than normal calving cows. We concluded that preventive procedures to control herd health, criterious clinical diagnosis of post partum disorders and development of data bases with precise recordings for regular analysis of the productive and reproductive parameters may lead to a more economic dairy production.
Reproductive efficiency; post partum; dairy cattle; milk production
