Nitrogen is essential for both vegetative and generative stages of plant growth. Nitrogen efficiency is related to plant growth, production cost, and fertilizer residue. Azolla has the ability to increase nitrogen fixation from the atmosphere. Thus, Azolla cultivation in paddy field is one strategy for improving nitrogen fertilizer efficiency and increasing plant vegetative and generative growt...

I. Eighty bull calves, comprising forty-eight Ayrshire and sixteen each of the Friesian and Jersey breeds, were used in a randomized block experiment. Forty calves were maintained at a mean environmental temperature of 21' and forty at 14.5'. Within each temperature, twenty calves were reared from birth on a liquid milk substitute diet (pre-ruminant calves) and twenty were weaned at 35 d of age...

The identification of factors affecting longevity in dairy cows is great importance to improve their length productive life. Cows can be replaced for poor milk production (i.e. true lifespan, TPL) or other reasons than (functional FPL). objective the present study was investigate influence yield, fat and protein contents, insemination status (INS), somatic cell count (SCC) ?-hydroxybutyrate (BH...

In 586 .iortrial laciabons of 150 Friesian cattle maintained at the National Veterinary' Research institute, Vom, from 1968 to 1983. Maximum milk production ,was attained in fifth week lactation. The fourth and sixth lactation curves showed superiority over first, second, third fifth. apparently indicate that culling unproductive animals before 6th could be economically unreasonable.

Eighty eight Friesian cows and heifers were fed one of four complete diets based on maize silage and containing increasing levels of grain (from 0 to 500 g DM/kg diet DM), in two trials. Days from calving to first observed oestrus and to conception were recorded as were yields of milk and milk fat and live weight changes during early lactation. In the second trial, complete lactation data were ...

A cross-sectional comparative study was carried out to investigate the productive and reproductive performances of different genetic groups of crossbred cows at three different farming conditions in Bangladesh. Crossbred cows (n=90) those already completed third lactations, were selected randomly from three different dairy farms (e.g. Jarip, Mullah and Nahar) located in Chittagong, Bangladesh. ...