Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the June 7, 2013:
Introduction
In theU.S., dairy products made with milk of small ruminants are considered to be specialty foods that are generally purchased by consumers who have little exposure to the realities of modern agri...
Article published the June 7, 2013:
Introduction
Mastitis continues to be the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cattle. Financial losses due to mastitis occur for both subclinical and clinical stages of the disease. Losses caused by sub...
Article published the June 7, 2013:
Introduction
The profitable production of high quality milk from healthy adult cows is the ultimate goal of most heifer management programs. The successful calving of a healthy heifer is the result of in...
Article published the June 7, 2013:
Introduction
The quality of milk is defined based on the somatic cell count (SCC) and bacterial count of bulk tank milk. Since 1986, the dairy industry has successfully adapted to gradual reductions in allowab...
Article published the April 16, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
In tropical and sub-tropical pasture-based dairy systems, a combination of high air temperatures and high humidity from late spring to early autumn leads to heat stress in lactating cows. Livestoc...
Article published the April 3, 2013:
Introduction
Vitiligo is a progressive disease of skin in which melanocytes are gradually destroyed causing depigmentation. It is most commonly acquired hypomelanosis in human. Elephant, horses, dogs...
Article published the April 3, 2013:
Introduction
Bovine Mastitis is economically the most significant disease of dairy cows and continues to be a persistent problem in the dairy industry at global level. With remarkably rising impact on Indian e...
Article published the March 15, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Livestock industry in West Africa has seen a tremendous growth with the best application of nutritional technologies (John Prabakaran and Dhanapal, 2009). However, feed safety is a concern for ac...
Article published the March 14, 2013:
Clostridium perfringens type D is responsible for producing microorganism enterotoxemia in sheep. The main toxins produced by the organism are the alpha and epsilon (E). E toxin being responsible for the pathog...
Article published the March 13, 2013:
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan genus that belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoasida, subclass Coccidiasina, order Eucoccidiorida, suborder Eimeriorina and family Cryptosporidiidae (St...