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...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science
ABSTRACT
Dairy calves in North America traditionally are housed individually and fed by manual milk feeding (MMF) systems with buckets or bottles. Automated milk feeders (AMF) allow for more natural milk feeding frequencies and volumes, and...
Source: Dairy Research Cluster
The Canadian Milk Production Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) Update conducted by Groupe AGECO and released in January 2019 assesses several environmental issues in milk production, including carbon footprint, water consumption, and land use. Its findings indicate that the...
Source: National Mastitis Council
Subcommittee of the NMC Research Committee: Ron Erskine, Jim Cullor, Mel Schaellibaum, Bob Yancey and Alfonso Zecconi
Introduction
Bovine mastitis is the single most common cause for antibacterial use in lactating dairy cattle (18, 24). Treatment of this...
Source: Alberta Milk, UCVM, Lorraine Doepel
Background:
The rearing of healthy heifer calves is an essential component of the success of all dairy farms yet little work to date has evaluated the success of various practices. Calves are born with virtually no...
