Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the March 6, 2019:
Imminent VFD regulations are anticipated to create challenging conditions for dairy producers. Yeast products are one of the many options that are being explored to overcome these challenges. There is a wide ra...
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 26, 2019:
Introduction
Historically, most nutritionists have given little consideration to the cost of vitamins A, D, and E. Cows needed them and even at high supplementation rates, cost per cow per day was reasonable. ...
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 December 7, 2018:
Article published the December 6, 2018:
1. Fatty acids formulation: changes in nutritionists approach, questions to be answered
The aspects abovementioned are quite well-known by nutritionist, and do not constitute major concerns for them. On th...
Article published the December 3, 2018:
1. Introduction
1.1. Arguments Scheme of the Paper
In Figure 1 a graphical abstract is provided in order to facilitate the understanding of the article and its storyline.
1.2. The Global Context: Pro...
Article published the November 13, 2018:
Introduction
Antibiotics, since their discovery in the 1920s, have played a critical role in contributing to the economic effectiveness of animal production as feed supplements at sub-therapeutic doses, to imp...
Article published the November 8, 2018:
1. Introduction
In-feed supplementation of antibiotics was firstly reported to promote growth in chickens (Moore et al., 1946) and subsequently in pigs (Jukes et al., 1950; Luecke et al., 1950). Since then, an...
Article published the November 8, 2018:
INTRODUCTION
As far as the profit is concerned to the farmers, the cost of the feed plays an important role. The dairy farmers in Karnataka are having limitations in terms of feedstuffs available in the region...