Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the January 8, 2021:
Introduction
As any other Latin American country, bovine brucellosis is a significant animal health problem and a relevant zoonosis in Costa Rica (CR). Consequently, the disease is of veterinary and of public ...
Article published the January 7, 2021:
Mycotoxins are naturally occurring compounds produced by fungi growing on plants in the field or during storage. Even though toxigenic molds may grow under a given set of environmental conditions, they do...
Article published the December 21, 2020:
Article published the December 21, 2020:
Introduction
The rise in milk production has been accompanied by increasing incidence of health problems, declining ability to reproduce and declining the fertility of modern dairy cows. The transition from la...
Article published the October 26, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) has been classified within the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae (Wengler et al., 1995). It has a positive single-stranded RNA genome of approximately ...
Article published the October 8, 2020:
THE PHASES OF THE RAISING PROCESS
Under intensive systems, the stage called Calf Rearing lasts approximately up to 60 days (30-60 days) and has three important phases:
1. Pre-ruminant phase - in which...
Article published the September 25, 2020:
Introduction
Milk is one of the most important foods of human beings and is recognized globally as a complete diet due to presence of essential components required for human health. India has a good number of ...
Article published the September 8, 2020:
Climate change is one of the most important environmental realities that human faces in this century. Not only because of the effects it has on the different human spheres, but because it represents a challenge...
Article published the September 8, 2020:
Introduction
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most important cause of economic loss of the beef industry in many parts of the world (12, 14, 26). It is a multifactorial condition that involves host and ...
Article published the September 3, 2020:
Zeelim dairy farm is located in the south of Israel and characterized by desert conditions and low rainfall in winter (100-150 mm/year) November–March.
In the last years, recycled water from the big Tel ...