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How does intensive cooling in summer affect fertility of young and adult cows?

Published: December 14, 2023
Summary
Global warming and the constant increase in cow yields aggravate the summer problem on dairy farms and increase the production losses caused to dairy producers. An important part of the losses caused is due to the negative effect of heat load on the fertility of cows that are inseminated in summer. To characterize this effect, we collected data from five large-scale, high-yield dairy farms (1,500...
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Israel Flamenbaum
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Rudolf Haudenschild
27 de febrero de 2024
Hello Mr. Flaumenbaum

Could you send me your study about heatstress on cows in North Spain vs South Spain. I read it on a newsletter but can t find it anymore!
Your work and investigations are very fascinating!
Do you know the slick gene for short hairs, more sweating against heat stress?
I was asked whether the Israeli Holsteins have inherited this gene by former cows at the place?

Thanks for answering

Rudolf Haudenschild
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Israel Flamenbaum
29 de febrero de 2024
@Rudolf Haudenschild Hello Mr. Rudolph

you can find this article, as all other articles dealing with heat stress topic appear in my website www.cool-cows.com
Double click in the British flag will open all my articles published in Engormix site, among them the article about Spanish farms. The same can be in Spanish under Spain flag and Portuguese under Brazil flag
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