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What will be effect of BST injection for cows, her health, her beef and her milk for consumer? ethicaly is it good or not? ...
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We are experiencing an outbreak of derriengue so I have to apply the vaccine. According to this month´s vaccination schedule, I should also apply vaccines and dewormers with vitamins. Would there be any risk if I applied derriengue vaccine along with all those vaccines on the same day? ...
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Recently, I’ve had serious problems with my cattle. They seem to be unable to urinate and have severe abdominal pain. When they drink water, they suffer from abdominal distension followed by bladder rupture. The urine floods the stomach and the animal dies. We´ve tried using different antibiotics but with no results. I would appreciate it if you could give me any information regarding this disease, since I have lost about 75 calves of different weight so far, Thanks, ...
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Introduction The classification of bovine lymphoproliferative neoplasms has been widely accepted to fall into one of four distinct forms based on age and site of tumor development (Angelos and Thurmond, 2009). The adult multicentric form is also known as Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL). The other three are grouped under the term sporadic bovine leukosis (SBL) and include the juvenile multicentric, thymic, and cutaneous...
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Scientists are tracking a new species of pestivirus that could pose a threat to U.S. cattle. Tentatively called “HoBi-like viruses,” they are related to bovine viral diarrhea viruses (BVDV), which cause significant economic losses to cattle producers worldwide. Originally found in South America, HoBi-like viruses have since been associ Scientists are tracking a new ...
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Productivity and longevity of dairy cows are greatly influenced by proper nutrition programs. Human-animal interaction in larger dairies is limited, and ailments detection relies heavily on employees. Metabolic disorders and their complications such as hypocalcaemia, fatty liver, ketosis, displaced abomasum, acidosis, and laminitis may result from dietary inadequacies. Early veterinary attention increases treatment effectiveness and reduces overall costs....
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A previous iGrow article, The Many Shades of Lameness looked at detection of lameness in feedlot and pasture cattle. What are the processes that contribute to these cases of lameness? One way to classify the various cause of lameness in cattle is to group them into two different categories: bacterial infection and injury. Some lameness...
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Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharyya - Group Product Manager of Vètoquinol India...
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Typically spring brings an increase in moisture, resulting in muddy lots or simply moister environments due to rain or snow melt. Within the dairy operation this intensifies the need to focus on foot care and lameness. Lameness continues to be one of the major reasons for culling and lost milk production in dairy herds. One of the best ways to minimize lameness occurring in your herd is to be proactive by having a management plan in place. ...
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Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is the first orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup detected in Europe. It was first identified by metagenomic analysis in Germany (1) and in the Netherlands in autumn 2011 (2) and spread rapidly over large parts of Central and Western Europe (1-5), affecting primarily ruminants, but also new-world camelids such as alpacas (1,6). The disease recurred in 2012 (7).There is...
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Introduction Paddy harvesting, threshing and its storage are major agricultural activities in south Asia during the November. Such rice straw is the major fodder for cattle and buffaloes during winter lean period. It´s a fact that rice production needs source of water supply for irrigation as water is indispensable throughout production period. The rice straw should be properly dried before feeding otherwise the...
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1 ANSES-INRA-ENVA, UMR 1161 Virologie, 23 avenue du Général De Gaulle, Maisons-Alfort 94704, France 2 Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Unité de Pathologie du Bétail, Université Paris-Est, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, Maisons-Alfort 94704, France 3 Direction scientifique des laboratoires, Plateforme de surveillance...
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Nowadays in Pakistan Dairy is progressing and greater milk yield is being obtained from dairy animals. However, this high milk yield adds great stress to dairy animals especially in pre-parturient and post-parturient period, as a result more and more cases of Downer cows are being reported. These cases are due to: 1. Blood Parasites 2. Fasciolosis 3. Improper feeding management 4. Low Body condition score 5. Fatty liver syndrome and Ketosis. Please discuss the...
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INTRODUCTION Eimeriosis in cattle is an important enteric protozoan parasitosis causing economic losses and severe clinical disease in calves (daugschies et al., 1998). Unlike most other eimerian species in cattle or in rodent models, the life cycle of E. bovis includes the development of macromeronts (up to 250 µm) within an endothelial host cell (Hammond et al., 1964). This rather long lasting process...
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1 Herd Health and Animal Husbandry, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
2 Animal and Bioscience Research...
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INTRODUCTION Black gold, the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is known as the world’s second most important milch animal as it shares more than 95% of the milk produced in the South Asia (Javaid et al., 2009). There are about 29.9 million heads of buffaloes in Pakistan (Afzal, 2010); out of these, 76.7% belong to Nili-Ravi breed, which is the most popular of buffaloes in Pakistan (Khaliq...
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Cryptosporidium is a protozoan genus that belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoasida, subclass Coccidiasina, order Eucoccidiorida, suborder Eimeriorina and family Cryptosporidiidae (Sterling and Arrowood 1993). This parasite has been detected in a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Infection, which usually causes selflimiting diarrhea in human and animals, can be fatal in immunocompromised individuals (O’Donoghue...
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Hello everybody, There is a dairy farm in Turkey. The avarage milk yield of the cows is about 32 lt/day. For 10-15 days, it has seen cecal dilatation and right displaced abomasum very often. As I know either cecal dilatation or displaced abomasum is related wtih particul size of TMR and low forage: concantre ratio in TMR. But the interesting thing is, none of them is wrong. I mean there is 45% of forage on the TMR and the particle size is like to be. And the...
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1 Herd Health and Animal Husbandry, UCD School Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
2 Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Coosan, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
3 Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology...
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