Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the July 11, 2019:
Introduction
The compost bedded pack barn is a housing system for lactating dairy cows. It consists of a large, open resting area, usually bedded with sawdust or dry, fine wood shavings and manure co...
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 14, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Nigeria is the world’s most populous black nation with over 140 million people (13), however, with relatively low number of food animals to the teaming population (5). Demographic figures in...
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 30, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Feed (ration) formulation is a technique by which different feed ingredients are combined to provide required nutrient to animals for a period of time, usually 24 hours,&n...
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 ...