Source: University of British Columbia
Cows often become sick in the ‘transition’ period around calving, and many dairy cows are lame, but research to date has not considered how lameness may put cows at risk for transition cow diseases. In...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science
ABSTRACT
Cows are regularly removed from dairy herds and sold at livestock markets. Many cows are removed because of health problems, and their fitness for transport may vary because of seasonal variation, delayed or poor on-farm...
Source: Dairy Research Cluster
New research supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) under the Dairy Research Cluster 3 is identifying and testing methods to manage water use more efficiently on dairy farms, including...
Source: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Mastitis imposes considerable and recurring economic losses on the dairy industry worldwide. The main objective of this study was to estimate herd-level costs incurred by expenditures and production losses associated with mastitis on Canadian dairy...
Source: National Mastitis Council
Carol Hulland (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Simon Dufour (Université de Montréal), and Marcos Munoz (Universidad de Concepción)
Version: April 13, 2018
Revision due: April 13, 2023
Many veterinary and milk quality laboratories are now using MALDI-TOF MS (Matrix Assisted Laser...
Source: PLOS ONE
Abstract
Despite scientific interest in animal empathy, and growing public concern for farm animal welfare, the empathic abilities of farm animals remain under researched. In this study, we investigated empathic responses of young Holstein dairy calves to conspecifics...
Source: IDF
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has announced the launch of the first certified reference materials for somatic cell counting in milk, an integral part in a joint project of the International Dairy Federation (IDF) and the...
Source: SaskMilk, Jennifer Haisan, Masahito Oba and Greg Penner
About the author:
Jennifer is a student at the University of Alberta and conducted this study as a part of her PhD. Jennifer came to the Rayner Dairy Facility to conduct the...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Antaya, N.T., Berthiaume, R., Tremblay, G.F., and Brito, A.F. (2015). "Short communication: Feeding red clover cut in the afternoon or morning to late-lactation dairy cows.", Journal of Dairy Science (JDS), 98(10), pp. 7335-7339. doi : 10.3168/jds.2015-9333...
Source: University of Manitoba
Team:
Project Leader: Dr. Denis Krause, Dept. Animal Science
Co-Investigators: Kim Ominski (U of M), Kees Plaizier (U of M), Katherine Buckley (AAFC-BRC), Glen Duizer (U of S)
Objective:
Assess the effectiveness of a biosecure carcass composting system for destroyingMycobacterium...
