Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the May 22, 2013:
Dairy managers watch manure changes as a guide when making feed changes. Fresh, undisturbed piles of feces or droppings may provide valuable clues on the nutritional status of the cow. Four aspects of manure ev...
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 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 4, 2013:
Technologies are the mile stones for developments. The high cost evolved in developing such tools make it non reachable for the poor nations. However, the obsolete technologies are being awarded as ai...
Article published the April 3, 2013:
"Modern Milking Technique"
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1. Swing Over- Milking Parlor system
2. Cleanliness of Milking parlor shed
3. Cleanliness of Milking parlor
Article published the February 19, 2013:
Ample bedding in stalls can optimize cow comfort, reduce hock lesions and lameness, and increase cow longevity (Tucker and Weary, 2004). The great price increase seen in other more traditional bedding sou...
Article published the February 13, 2013:
Introduction
Management Information Systems in the livestock industry means the employment of a record systems that create databases from which information can be retrieved, processed, batch or real time, to ...
Article published the October 31, 2012:
Here are some of the most asked questions about robotic milking systems. Answers are based on formal interviews with Canadian robot owners, Ontario milk quality records and European research studies.
How...
Article published the October 30, 2012:
Horns and Their Growth
Horns are the pairs of hard, bonelike, permanent growths projecting from the heads of cattle. They grow from a unique area of skin cells at the base of the horn. At about two months of ...
Article published the October 19, 2012:
Drought conditions across the country have many beef producers evaluating their feeding costs in an effort to make the correct management decisions for their operations. The information in this publication can ...