Cellulase and Dairy Animal Feeding

Effect of Animal Grouping on Feeding Behavior and Intake of Dairy Cattle

Although data are scarce, it is clear that grouping strategy can have a significant impact on the feeding behavior and feed intake of dairy cattle. Feed intake is controlled by ruminoreticular fill and physiological mechanisms, but grouping is a component of the cow’s feeding environment that can modulate intake as a result of its impact on cow comfort, competition for feed and other resources,...

Stabilization of returned dairy products by ensiling with straw and molasses for animal feeding.

Returned dairy products which are transferred to landfills might add to the environmental pollution. Such products have a high nutritional value for ruminants, but they should be stabilized to enable their use as cattle feed. The purpose of the current study was to examine stabilization of returned dairy products by ensiling in combinations with straw and molasses for animal feeding. Treatments...

Feeding the Newborn Dairy Calf

Dairy Cattle-selection, Feeding and Management

ORGANIC ANALYTICAL REAGENTS By JOHN H. YOE, Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia, and LANDON A. BARVER, Director of Research, American Viscose Corporation. A comprehensive treatise on organic analytical reagents. It represents probably the first attempt to collect in one volume the data hitherto scattered throughout the literature. A glossary of reagents is included, and a bibliograph...

Animal Hygiene and Animal Health in Dairy Cattle Operations

This paper addresses the economic and strategic position of animal health in the dairy operations and the way that animal health care should be properly designed. Examples of biosecurity plans and quality risk management are further elaborated. Disease risk identification and disease risk management as primary preventive issues are pivotal in modern animal health care on both the small and larg...