The use of decision analysis to evaluate the economic effects of heat mount detectors in two dairy herds.
This paper reports a decrease in the interval from calving to conception in two commercial dairy herds, associated with the use of KaMaR Heat Mount Detectors. An economic analysis of the results uses a neoclassical decision theory approach to demonstrate that the use of heat mount detectors is likely to be profitable, with an expected net return of $154.18 per 100 calvings. The analysis demonstrates the suitability of a decision-theoretic approach to the analysis of applied research, and illustrates some of the weaknesses of "Classical" statistical analysis in such circumstances.
D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003612:Dairying; D003657:Decision Making; D004972:Estrus Detection; D005260:Female; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D011247:Pregnancy; D011336:Probability; D013997:Time Factors