Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the July 20, 2017:
Milk is one of Mother Nature’s most perfect foods; however, milk quality is jeopardized when it contains life-threatening pathogens. Through science-based knowledge, procedures have been developed to make...
Article published the July 18, 2017:
Structural changes of dairy farms towards more and more bigger companies led in the last decades to a tremendous improvement of efficiency and performance of our high yielding dairy cows. Especially in the...
Article published the July 13, 2017:
Article published the June 30, 2017:
Introduction
The peripartal or “transition” period in taurine cattle is considered the most important phase of the lactation cycle because during this time animals are most-susceptible to metaboli...
Article published the June 26, 2017:
The optimisation of the use of nitrogen (N) in ruminants diet can be highly valuable in terms of profitability and sustainability of any farm. In this study it has been assessed the use of economical source of ...
Article published the June 22, 2017:
Ruminant nutrition is highly sophisticated. Immense research and application efforts have culminated in great successes. Today, we can satisfy with a relative high precision the nutritional needs of high produc...
Article published the June 15, 2017:
Relative feed value has been used for a number of years to indicate the overall feed value of forage. In recent years, there have been some changes considered to make this assessment more accurate in regards to...
Article published the June 9, 2017:
Introduction
The liver performs essential functions in mammals. These include, but are not limited to, gluconeogenesis and glycogen synthesis, synthesis of several plasma proteins encompassing clotting factor...
Article published the June 2, 2017:
Introduction
Proper sampling of ration ingredients and submitting those samples for nutrient analysis to a good lab are essential components of diet formulation. The relative importance of sampling, analytical...
Article published the May 24, 2017:
Introduction
The incidence of lameness is so high in many dairy herds that treatment of all lame cows is not feasible (Horseman et al., 2013). Because soft barn flooring may alleviate the problem of claw horn ...