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Hassan Subhani
Sweetwater International, Inc.
Hi dear all kindly share your opinion on the futre of FMD effected cows. what would be impact on current lactation? and wht would be effect on reproduction? waiting for ur expert opinion Regards Subhani ...
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Summary The aim of the Australian Profit Ranking (APR) selection index for Australian dairy cattle is to improve the profitability of dairy farming and assigns weights to milk, fat and protein yield, daughter survival, daughter fertility, somatic cell count, live weight, temperament and likeability according to their contributions to profit and their correlations. Although the index partially captures gross efficiency, it does not account for...
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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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Preamble. Green forage is the most preferred feed for dairy cows by the farmers. They feel happy while feeding their cows with green succulent fodder. In advanced countries the cows are let loose on pasture land to graze and forage at their free will. When the above facilities are unavailable farmers have to depend on dry fodder. Fiber is the slowly digested or indigestible material in...
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Juan J. Loor
University of Illinois
University of Illinois
Take home messages Application of high-throughput technologies (e.g. microarrays, next-generation sequencing) in a systems biology framework to study the interactions of physiological state and nutrition on tissue function in livestock species is a powerful means to gain a holistic view of the underlying biological phenomena. Potential practical applications from applying such an approach in studies of mammary, adipose, and liver of dairy cows are...
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Dr. Michael Looper
University of Arkansas (USA)
University of Arkansas (USA)
Introduction Water constitutes 60 to 70 percent of a livestock animal's body. Water is necessary for maintaining body fluids and proper ion balance; digesting, absorbing and metabolizing nutrients; eliminating waste material and excess heat from the body; providing a fluid environment for the fetus; and transporting nutrients to and from body tissues. Dairy cattle get the water they need by drinking and consuming feed that contains water, as well...
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INTRODUCTION Livestock in Pakistan are facing acute shortage of feed availability including concentrates, forages and pastures. Currently about 30 million tons of more feed is required to fulfill the gap of 4.16 and 21.3 million tons of crude protein (CP) and total digestible nutrients (TDN) respectively for the existing strength of dairy animals (Sarwar, 2006). The prevailing trend to bring more cultivated area under cash crops has further...
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Jeffrey Firkins
Ohio State University
Ohio State University
Introduction Sugars are rapidly and extensively fermented in the rumen. Clearly, adding sugar to a diet already high in ruminally degraded carbohydrates should offer little benefit and could decrease digestibility of fiber, whereas diets that have less-than-optimal rumen degraded carbohydrate probably will benefit the most from addition of sugars. Therefore, dietary situations influence the optimum feeding rate of between 2.5 and 5% supplemental...
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More than 90% of the alfalfa planted in Argentina is used under direct grazing for beef and dairy production. In this context, bloat is a very serious problem and it is one of the main causes of animal losses. In 2002, INTA ( National Institute for Agricultural Technology, Argentina ) released ProINTA Carmina (Carmina), a non-dormant alfalfa cultivar selected for lower initial rate of dry matter disappearance. In several trials conducted at INTA units,...
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Introduction Agricultural byproducts comprise main feed source for livestock production in south Asia. Due to unprecedented rainfall, paddy harvesting was severely affected during mid November last year. The paddy plants were thoroughly wet and straw from such plant were used by farmers. As a result Degnala disease, as reported by British animal health technician Sarlow in 1930 was seen in buffaloes in various parts of country. Now...
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Dr. Deepak Kumar Dubey
Kemin Industries, Inc
When we talk about dairy nutrition our discussion is limited to energy, proteins, fats, etc., which have a direct impact on animal health and milk production. As a result, the nutrients that require less quantity, for example minerals or more precisely trace minerals, are often forgotten. Minerals are inorganic elements required for proper growth, body maintenance, nerve function, body enzymes and hormones. Trace minerals, as per the name, are required...
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INTRODUCTION Inflammation and pain mostly occurs in many diseases of goats. To provide improvement in animals well being and outcome, the condition of inflammation and pain is treated /managed by a variety of pharmacological agents of which NSAID´s is one of the important and large group (Aydin et al., 2003). Among NSAID´s diclofenac sodium is widely available veterinary drug. It is used for the symptomatic treatment and management of...
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Abstract: The objective of this study was to assess the influence of replacing percent of alfalfa by percent of Atriplex as roughage fed to animals. Twenty four adult Barki lambs weighed an average 49± 77 kg and age 3 years were used in six digestibility trials (4 animals each). Experimental diets were made of alfalfa and Atriplex nummularia in different ratios to each other as follow:R1: 75 % alf + 25% At, R2: 50 % alf + 50 % At, R3: 25 % alf + 75 % At, R4: 100...
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Marcos Veiga dos Santos
USP -Universidade de São Paulo
USP -Universidade de São Paulo
1. Introduction The interest in milk protein has risen in the last decades due to its nutritional (Meisel, 2004) and economical importance (Emmons et al., 2003). Higher true protein concentration in milk is desirable to attend the dairy industry demands (Emmons et al., 2003). Milk nitrogen fractions are composed of casein, whey proteins and non- rotein nitrogen (Depeters and Cant, 1992). Casein and...
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I just want to discuss the role of biotin and its concentration in normal min mixture for dairy and in injectable form for cattle.  I found some companies are coming with injection form including 12.5 microgram per ml. and in mineral mix also in less concentration. ...
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David Chapman
University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
David Chapman, Principal Scientist of Dairy NZ, speaks about Pastures in intensive production systems: challenges to combine sustainability, competitively and environment at the 34th Argentine Congress of Animal Production- 1st Joint Meeting ASAS-AAPA in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
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Fredric Owens
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University
Dr. Fred Owens, Ruminant Nutrition Specialist of Pioneer Hi-Bred, speaks about Advances in nutrition in the last decade that impacted in animal production efficiency (beef and dairy) at the 34th Congress of Animal Production in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
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