Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
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 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 ...
Article published the March 12, 2013:
Introduction
Comprehensive research has evaluated several methods for feed processing to improve its utilization by mono and poly-gastric animals. Appropriate time for weaning of calves is very important to pr...
Article published the December 18, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Sheep and goats are most productive when fed a balanced ration according to their nutrient needs. The needed nutrients should also be supplied at lowest possible cost. This can be done if produc...
Article published the December 18, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Ruminants have unique ability to utilize the fibrous material through anaerobic fermentation (Kibria et al., 1991), therefore, sunflower seed meal (SFM) can be efficiently ...
Article published the December 14, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Goats are an important source of meat and milk (Devendra and Burns, 1983). Recently, goats became an important aspect of animal production in Egypt. Increasing productivity of goats will contribut...
Article published the November 30, 2012:
Take home messages
Application of high-throughput technologies (e.g. microarrays, next-generation sequencing) in a systems biology framework to study the interactions of physiological state and nutrition on...
Article published the November 30, 2012:
Introduction
Modern day intensive production systems, especially with high producing dairy cows, involve the feeding of high levels of concentrates in order to supply sufficient nutrients to support a high lev...