traditional dairy farms play important role to obtain dairy and rural household income. rural women are managers these units. unfortunately, they haven't educated because of social and cultural problems. milk production contain high microbial count endanger community health and also producers economic in traditional farms. the project has studied educational needs of rural women regarding ...


 The aims of the present study were to investigate occurrence intramammary infections in primiparous heifers treated and not with antibiotics prepartum, postpartum subsequent lactation periods verify antibiotic residues milk released for consumption. A total 188 mammary glands from 47 Black White Holstein crossbred belonging two experimental dairy farms located state São Paulo, Brazil, ev...

Leitner, G. 162 INTRODUCTION Economic pressure drives modern dairy farmers to exert continuous efforts to maximize profitability. This is achieved by constant improvement of genetic selection, nutrition, and herd management. Modern dairy farms are characterized by high levels of computerized data acquisition, which provides on-line information on cows' milk yield, milk composition and body weig...

Bovine-leukosis virus (BLV; also termed 'bovine-leukemia virus') is a retrovirus that primarily affects lymphoid tissue of dairy and beef cattle. Our objective was to investigate the association between BLV infection and annual value of production (AVP) on dairy herds within the United States, as part of the USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System's 1996 dairy study. 1006 herds (in 20 sta...

Milk performance (protein and fat content) and milk fatty acids (FA) profile of dairy cows under supplementation with two sources of concentrate, oilseeds (C, cottonseed) at two levels, low (5kg DM/cow/day) and high (7 kg DM/cow/day), and cereal grains (B, barley) at high rate (7 kg DM/cow/day), were studied in three herds (n=36) of spring calving Holstein-Friesian dairy cows (200 days in milk)...

Background: Inclusion of urea and calcium oxide (CaO) during sugarcane ensilage has been hypothesized to improve dairy cow performance. Objective: To evaluate the use as additives preserve silage quality determine whether they performance metabolic efficiency. Methods: Four diets were used: without additive (SS), with 10 g/kg (SU), 5 + CaO (SUC), (SC). Eight crossbred cows at approximately 100 ...

In dairy cattle, bedding and its management contribute predominantly to the comfort of cow, udder health milk quality. The aim study is assess effect different materials such as concrete floor, rubber mats, coir pith dried solid manure on hygiene yield in crossbred cows. Twenty-four cows with six animals each group were selected for one lactation period spread over three seasons. control (T1) w...

A study was carried out on 117 smallholder dairy cattle herds in Kikuyu Division of Kiambu District Kenya between April 2004 and December 2004 to determine the incidence of periparturient conditions (downer cow syndrome, dystocia, milk fever and retained placenta among others) in smallholder dairy cattle herds and the associated factors (plausible predictor variables; age, parity and management...

Twenty crossbred lactating multiparous cows were used in a 28-day study to compare dry matter intake (DMI), milk yield, milk composition and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein concentrations in plasma when fed diets containing Bollgard II(®) cottonseed (BGII) or a control non-genetically modified isogenic cottonseed (CON). Bollgard II cottonseed contains the Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab insecticidal prot...

This paper describes a cost effective Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology for monitoring the health of dairy cows. By monitoring and understanding the cow individual and herd behaviour, farmers can potentially identify the onset of illness, lameness or other undesirable health conditions. However, the WSN implementation needs to cope with various technical challenges before it can be suita...