Although postpartum Ca supplementation strategies are often employed to prevent subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows, these strategies have produced a mix of beneficial, neutral, and detrimental results when assessing milk yield and subsequent dise...
The objective of this observational study was to evaluate the efficacy of a neck-mounted automated activity monitor (AAM) at detecting early postpartum resumed ovarian cyclicity. A total of 192 lactating cows (primiparous = 73 and multiparous = 119) ...
Somatic cell count (SCC) is a widely used indicator of milk quality in the dairy industry. It is a relatively good indicator of udder health in dairy cows, but strongly confounded by non-infection factors, including season, in dairy goats. This study...
The growing demand among dairy producers for suitable beef sires to mate to their females creates the possibility of separate breeding programs to generate beef sires for the dairy sector versus those for the beef sector. Informing such a decision is...
Around parturition, dairy cows inevitably and perhaps necessarily experience some degree of systemic inflammation, but when excessive or dysregulated, it may contribute to health disorders. As immune activation decreases blood Ca, greater extracellul...
Volatile fatty acids (VFA) and methane (CH) are the major products of rumen fermentation. The VFA are considered an energy source for the animal and rumen microbiota, and CH (which is released by eructation) is considered an energy loss. Quantificati...
White willow bark (WWB) is commonly used in combination with other medicinal herbs and analgesics to alleviate inflammatory pain in disbudded calves under organic management, but there is no evidence to confirm an effect of WWB on inflammatory biomar...
The expression of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is associated with production losses in dairy cows and is a hallmark of early inflammatory processes. Reliable tools for the detection and quantification of soluble as wel...