This research is focused on the evaluation of milk flow traits of Slovak Simmental dairy cows, using electronic mobile milk flow meters Lactocorders. All measurements were carried out on a farms located in the western Slovakia. We evaluated a total amount of 124 Simmental dairy cows. The Main group of Slovak Simmental dairy cows was divided according to parity and lactation stage respectively, ...

Twelve goats of the Granadina breed in mid- and late lactation were used in two consecutive years to determine their protein and energy requirements for lactation. The animals were individually fed on diets based on pelleted lucerne (Medicago sativa) hay and barley. A total of six balance experiments were carried out. Gas exchange was measured using open-circuit respiration chambers. Milk yield...

The major problems for the dairy practices in the tropical country are low milk yield and short lactation period of either pure exotic or crossbred dairy cattle. Many factors affect milk production in dairy cattle in tropical areas including high environmental temperature and humidity, lower genetic potential for milk production in indigenous cattle and inadequate supply of food during the dry ...

More and more research is done concerning nutritional programming. Human milk nutrients which are consumed by infants can influence their health in later life. High level of cholesterol in human milk paradoxically lowers the cholesterol concentration in blood in adults. During the course of human lactation the cholesterol concentration decreases from 31 mg/100cm(3) (colostrum) to 16 mg/100 cm(3...

Data from calf studies conducted over the past 20 yr has shown that preweaning nutrient intake, from milk or milk replacer, can have profound effects on development of the calf that enhance first lactation and lifetime productivity. Many of the studies show positive but not significant effects of preweaning nutrition on long-term productivity, primarily due to a lack of power, usually due to in...

The present study was conducted to study production parameters of lactating Murrah buffaloes supplemented with Tinospora cordifolia. Twelve lactating Murrah buffaloes in early stage of lactation were selected from the herd of National Dairy Research Institute Karnal, Haryana. The buffaloes were divided into two groups of six animals each. One group was taken as control and the other group suppl...

Human milk is the most favorable nutrition for infants. Unfortunately, human breast milk also contains traces of persistent organochlorines (OC). This leads to exposure throughout the breastfeeding period. The levels of OC in milk depend on many factors such as mothers age, number of deliveries and lactation periods, place of residence, changes in the mother's weight during lactation or nutrition.

This study was conducted to compare three models: two random regression models with and without considering heterogeneity in the residual variances and a lactation model (LM) for evaluating the genetic ability of Holstein cows in Korea. Two datasets were prepared for this study. To apply the test-day random regression model, 94,390 test-day records were prepared from 15,263 cows. The second dat...

JUOZAITIENE, V., A. JUOZAITIS: The influence of somatic cell count in milk on reproductive traits and production of Black-and-White cows. Vet. arhiv 75, 407414, 2005. ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to estimate the relationships between somatic cell count in milk, reproduction traits and milk production of cows of the Black-and-White breed. The research was carried out on 412 herds of the ac...

The scale of sexed semen use to avoid the birth of unwanted bull calves in the UK dairy industry depends on several economic factors. It has been suggested in other studies that calf gender may affect milk yield in Holsteins- something that would affect the economics of sexed semen use. The present study used a large milk recording data set to evaluate the effect of calf gender (both calf born ...