Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the May 14, 2013:
Refrigeration of bovine sperm provides a window of opportunity for storage/transportation and utilization of semen and provides a management option in combination with fixed-time artificial insem...
Article published the May 10, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Calves could be weaned after they consume a specific amount of starter in a specific period of time, mostly 2 to 3 d continuously (Morrill et al., 1995; Abdelgadir et al., 1996). Coverdale et al. ...
Article published the May 9, 2013:
Optimized systems for timed artificial insemination (TAI; Pregnancy per AI of 40 to 50%) entail controlling the period of follicle dominance, need to sustain progesterone exposure throughout the&...
Article published the May 8, 2013:
Specific Causes of Reproductive Failure
Fertility in cattle has many pre-requisites and components, which require males and females to be functionally capable of reaching the last step, the birth of a normal, ...
Article published the May 8, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Milk yield of the dairy cows has increased rapidly over the past 40 yeras and, in some European countries more than doubled, due to a combitation of improved genetics, feeding and management, with...
Article published the May 8, 2013:
Metabolic Load During Lactation, Health and Welfare in High-producing Dairy Cows
In dairy cattle, metabolic load (ML) is defined as "the total energy burden imposed by the synthesis and secretion of milk, whic...
Article published the May 2, 2013:
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the main greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide started to increase around the early nineteenth century (IPCC, 2006). From then on...
Article published the April 17, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Small ruminant production is the main source of income of farmers living in the arid and semi-arid regions. These areas are characterized by low and erratic rainfall resulting in water scarcity le...
Article published the April 17, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
The interest in search for alternative/additional feed ingredients is of paramount importance in developing countries, mainly, because of the acute shortage of traditional feed materials. Introduc...
Article published the April 16, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
The available amount of green fodder through the summer season in Egypt is usually insufficient for animal feeding leading to increasing prices of diets. Therefore, attempts have been carried out ...