Source: PennState Extension
Ensuring that your calves are achieving a healthy weaning transition is key to their nutritional success as they grow and develop.
Are your calves experiencing a decrease in performance once they are transitioned from milk? Perhaps you are...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
On average, each of Canada's dairy cows produces 8,500 litres of milk per year. Farmers must monitor them closely in their first year of lactation, as they are more fragile during this time and can...
Source: University of British Columbia Dairy cattle, By Jane Stojkov and David Fraser1
Every year about 250,000 cows are removed from Canadian dairy herds, in many cases with health challenges such as lameness or mastitis. The marketing system for cull...
Despite decades of research and efforts, bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains the most important cause of economic losses in youngstock1. BRD costs all farmers in many ways: treatment costs, lower animal survival, reduced growth, higher age at first calving...
What do we know about Streptococcus uberis mastitis and why is it so frustrating?
Streptococcus uberis is recognised in many countries around the world as the problem mastitis bug that can cause difficult to cure cases that often recur. This...
Source: The University of British Columbia
By Tracy A. Burnett, Augusto M.L. Madureira, Janet Bauer, Ronaldo L.A. Cerri
Infertility of lactating dairy cows represents a major challenge for dairy production. In order for proficient outputs, modern dairies using year-round calving are...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science
ABSTRACT
Dairy cows are often diagnosed with fever without showing clinical symptoms of disease. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in feeding, social, and lying behaviors of cows with fever but without clinical disease,...
Source: Dairy Research and Extension Consortium of Alberta
Why is this important?
Agriculture is a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), thereby impacting climate change potential. In addition to GHG emissions, the dairy industry significantly impacts the environment through nitrogen (N)...
Source: Dairy Research Cluster
Manure is an important source of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Methane (CH4) is the most important GHG associated with liquid manure management. Manure methane emissions occur as a net result of microbial production and consumption...
Source: MDPI and ACS Style
Nogues, E.; Lecorps, B.; Weary, D.M.; von Keyserlingk, M.A.G. Individual Variability in Response to Social Stress in Dairy Heifers.Animals 2020, 10, 1440.
Simple Summary
Mixing unfamiliar animals (or regrouping) is a common practice on dairy farms. This disruption...
