Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Castagnino, D.S., Seck, M., Beaudet, V., Kammes, K.L., Voelker Linton, J.A., Allen, M.S., Gervais, R., Chouinard, P.Y., and Girard, C.L. (2016). "Effects of forage family on apparent ruminal synthesis of B vitamins in lactating dairy...
Source: WCDS Advances in Dairy Technology
Automated milking systems (AMS) are already used in 10% of Canadian dairy farms and >20% of dairy farms in Western Canada, with indications of increasing adoption. Therefore, there is increasing need for accurate, early...
Source: National Mastitis Council
Just because you’re milking a first-calf heifer, don’t assume she doesn’t have mastitis. In fact, the incidence of mastitis during early lactation is higher in heifers than in older cows, explained Vinicius Machado of Texas Tech...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Dairy Farmers of Canada in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and provincial partners, is supporting 10 research projects in dairy cattle health, care and...
Source: Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Séboussi, R., Tremblay, G.F., Ouellet, V., Chouinard, P.Y., Chorfi, Y., Bélanger, G., and Charbonneau, É. (2016). "Selenium-fertilized forage as a way to supplement lactating dairy cows.", Journal of Dairy Science (JDS), 99(7), pp. 5358-5369. doi...
Source: Alberta Milk, U of S, Sylvia van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk
Background:
Bovine viral diarrhea continues to be one of the top two most important indigenous viral diseases in cattle, the other being IBR. In addition to the losses due to...
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Widespread concern over global warming has spurred an emerging need to mitigate the release of “Cow Flatulence” which is lost as methane gas. Diet modification through the use of Micro-Aid®, an all-natural, feed additive, is one means...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada, dairyresearch.ca
Principal Investigators:
CHAOUKI BENCHAAR Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke
RACHEL GERVAIS Université Laval
COLLABORATORS:
Édith Charbonneau and Doris Pellerin Université Laval
OBJECTIVE:
Methane production from ruminant animals represents a loss of productive energy and contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Source: BMC Veterinary Research
Chenxu Zhao†, Guowen Liu†, Xiaobing Li†, Yuan Guan, Yazhou Wang, Xue Yuan, Guoquan Sun, Zhe Wang and Xinwei Li
†Contributed equally
Abstract
Background
Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) is a metabolic disease in high-producing dairy cattle, and is accompanied by rumenitis. However, the mechanism of rumenitis remains unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the molecular...
Source: Alberta Milk
UCVM, Karin Orsel
Funding Partners: ALMA, GF2
Background:
Digital dermatitis is an ulcerative lesion that tend to be painful, causing lameness, and thus compromise animal welfare and can decrease milk production and increase culling and treatment costs. Previously, DD was...
