Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
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:
More than 85-90% of the forage’s fiber could be degraded in a well working rumen.
The forage fiber characteristics represent the key point to improve feed efficiency, considering their effects on diet ...
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 ...
Article published the August 27, 2020:
For the last few months, it seems that immunity has been at the forefront of our thought process – not just for the dairy industry but world-wide. While everyone has been focused on staying healthy and ha...
Article published the August 11, 2020:
Ruminants have a unique digestive physiology characterized by a pre-systemic fermentation and digestion of plant constituents such as cellulose by microorganisms comprising the ruminal flora. This particulari...
Article published the August 7, 2020:
Introduction
Complementary grazing systems (CGS) involve the rotation of animals between forage resources of species with different patterns of seasonal growth and development (Gillen et al., 1999; Moore et al...
Article published the August 4, 2020:
Article published the July 31, 2020:
In a survey that we carried out recently in Israel, we found a great variation between farms, in terms of the number of hours along the day the cows are in "heat stress" condition (body temperature above normal...
Article published the July 22, 2020:
Previous studies showed that inclusion of polyphenol-rich plant extracts in feed improves performance in ruminants, but the effect may vary depending on the dosage used. It has been shown that polyphenols modif...