Transition Period in Dairy Cows 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 26, 2021:
Introduction
Dairy cows are provided high allocations of grain following calving to meet high energy demands for milk production. However, increased grain consumption increases the flow of fermentabl...
Article published the July 29, 2021:
Article published the December 21, 2020:
Introduction
The rise in milk production has been accompanied by increasing incidence of health problems, declining ability to reproduce and declining the fertility of modern dairy cows. The transition from la...
Article published the July 20, 2020:
Introduction
The transition period into lactation remains one of the most challenging and important phases of the production cycle in a dairy cow. It is a transient period around calving characterised by drast...
Article published the March 31, 2020:
Dairy cows alter their metabolic, hormonal, mineral, and immunological systems as they transition from pregnancy to lactation. Following parturition cows are unable to consume enough nutrients to meet the ene...
Article published the November 8, 2019:
Transition – a metabolic challenge
The transition phase is the period of exceptional metabolic challenges. Daily milk yield increases rapidly but DMI does not follow fast enough. Energy balance is negati...
Article published the October 5, 2018:
Article published the December 6, 2017:
Developments in transition cow nutrition
Major advances in transition cow nutrition were made in the decade prior to the 2001 edition of the National Research Council publication Nutrient Requirements of Dairy...
Article published the November 23, 2017:
Introduction
During the transition from pregnancy to lactation increased energy and calcium demands for colostrum and milk production, combined with a decline in dry matter intake (DMI) around parturition, c...