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Combines fertility, udder health, lameness and mortality into a transparent 0 to 100 index with stated weights and benchmark anchors, and names the weakest component.
Herd index
Index = 0.3 x fertility score + 0.3 x udder health score + 0.2 x lameness score + 0.2 x mortality score, each component scaled 0-100 against the stated benchmark
Educational estimate only. Not a substitute for professional clinical judgement, and must not be used to make treatment or dosing decisions.
No. They are stated explicitly here so the index is transparent; different systems weight components differently.
Conception rate 55%, bulk milk somatic cell count 150 to 400 thousand, lameness under 5% and annual mortality under 2% are the anchors.