{"id":48,"date":"2026-09-21T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/herd\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:53:18","slug":"herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/herd\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing Growth: A Herd Improvement Case Study from Inner Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago a 1,200-head operation in Inner Mongolia began a genetics programme with us. The brief was simple: raise fat and protein percentage without lengthening the calving interval.<\/p>\n<h3>What changed<\/h3>\n<p>By year four, fat percentage had moved 0.31 points and protein 0.14 points, with the calving interval unchanged. The mechanism was sire selection weighted toward functional traits rather than raw production.<\/p>\n<h3>What did not change<\/h3>\n<p>Feed quality and milking routine discipline. Genetics sets a ceiling; management decides how close you get to it. Six years of data made that uncomfortably clear to everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago a 1,200-head operation in Inner Mongolia began a genetics programme with us. The brief was simple: raise fat and protein percentage without lengthening the calving in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hyxintl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}