Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the September 13, 2021:
Introduction
Dairy cows experience massive metabolic demands to support lactation. They adapt their metabolism to do so, including uncoupling of the somatotropic axis (Baumgard et al., 2017) with peripher...
Article published the August 20, 2021:
1. Introduction
Reducing the production costs is becoming more important in the dairy industry. The suitable development of replacement heifers is an expensive investment for dairy farms, so estimations of all...
Article published the July 29, 2021:
Article published the July 2, 2021:
Introduction
Decisions concerning the milking center are some of the most complicated decisions a dairy producer has to make. Milking procedures, herd size, expansion plans, milking interval and the equity pos...
Article published the June 8, 2021:
Introduction
The challenge of the contemporary production of agricultural products is intrinsically linked to optimizing processes and production costs. Ensuring thermal comfort, considering that the intense i...
Article published the May 12, 2021:
In a previous article published some years ago here, dealing with cooling project that I accompanied in northern Mexico, I described the results from the first and second years of its implementation. The data w...
Article published the May 7, 2021:
1. Introduction
Goat production in Chile is carried out by poor small-scale farmers in semi-arid to arid agricultural conditions [1]. Milk and cheese are the main products obtained using artisanal, cultural an...
Article published the May 4, 2021:
An increase in the velocity of air, at a temperature lower than the surface temperature of the animal, has the potential to increase the sensible heat loss of the animal. An augmentation in air velocity will sh...
Article published the April 21, 2021:
INTRODUCTION
Raising healthy calves is the foundation for a sustainable and profitable dairy herd. Dam nutrition during the last trimester, calving supervision/assistance, maternity facilities hygiene, umbilic...
Article published the April 21, 2021:
INTRODUCTION
Grazed pasture soils are a potential source of nitrous oxide (N2O) due to elevated inorganic N pools. N2O is the dominant source of microbial denitrification, and under suitable conditions, N2O ma...