Drinking and Cleaning Water Use in a Dairy Cow Barn

Drinking and Cleaning Water Use in a Dairy Cow Barn

Water is used in dairy farming for producing feed, watering the animals, and cleaning and disinfecting barns and equipment. The objective of this study was to investigate the drinking and cleaning water use in a dairy cow barn. The water use was measured on a well-managed commercial dairy farm in North-East Germany. Thirty-eight water meters were installed in a barn with 176 cows and two milkin...

A Survey on Drinking Water Contamination to Indicator Bacteria in Dairy Farms of Mashhad Suburb

BACKGROUND: Microbial quality of drinking water is very important in animal health. OBJECTIVES: The present survey was conducted to evaluate the microbial quality of cows' drinking water in dairy farms in Mashhad suburb, Iran, to find out defects in this field. METHODS: Water samples were taken from 30 farms and 4 sites including: Water tanks,  inlet and outlet  of bovine drinking troughs and c...

Ultrasonic cleaning of submerged membranes for drinking water applications

Atypical Actinobacillosis in a Dairy Cow

Actinobacillosis is an infectious, chronic, generally non-fatal disease caused by Actinobacillus lignieresii. The etiologic agent is a part of the oral flora and causes pyogranulomatous lesions of the soft tissues. A 5-year old, approximately 500 kg cross-breed Holstein cow was presented for the treatment of a large, ulcerated and hemorrhagic mass at the left side of the neck in vicinity of the...

Optimizing Dairy Cow Reproductive Performances besides the Use of Hormones

Despite the considerable expansion of our knowledge about the bovine reproductive cycle and the increasing possibilities to intervene herein, fertility in high yielding dairy herds has unremittingly been reported to decline since last decades. Since studies reporting about this fertility decrease originate from regions all over the globe, this situation seems to be widespread and universally ac...