Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the September 2, 2019:
Introduction
Bovine lameness is an important condition in commercial dairy and beef operations worldwide. Its economic impacts include decreased reproductive performance and milk yield and increased culling ra...
Article published the September 2, 2019:
Introduction
• Questions have risen on impact of many hoofbath chemicals on human health and the environment, and also concerns about water usage.
• Topical spray disinfectant solutions are an inter...
Article published the July 12, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Mycotoxin contaminations pose growing problem in animal production from the economic and toxicological point of view (Marczuk et al., 2012). The adverse effects of mycotoxins manifest both on the ...
Article published the June 27, 2019:
Article published the June 18, 2019:
Summer losses in milk production are usually related to the negative impact of summer heat stress on the lactating cow. Actually, this is true, due to the large negative effect of heat stress on feed consumptio...
Article published the March 20, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) is a disease of cattle and buffalos (Abdulkadir, 1989) caused by 1 of 2 serotypes of Pasteurella multocida, designated B:2 and E:2 (FAO, 2015; IIL, 2015). The disease...
Article published the February 28, 2019:
Article published the February 28, 2019:
The key to managing your herd through heat stress is being ready for it. Watching the weather forecast to understand the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) is the first step in managing heat stress. The color-cod...
Article published the February 7, 2019:
Cooling means to reduce heat stress from cows have been developed over the last four decades in Israel and around the world, and are applied to a different degree of success in many farms in the world.
Cooling...
Article published the January 2, 2019:
Cooling means to reduce heat stress from cows have been developed over the last four decades in Israel, and are applied to a different degree of success in many farms in the world.
Cooling cows in the farm is ...