The objective of the present study was to quantify the relationships among body condition score (BCS; scale 1 to 5), live weight (WT) and milk production in Irish Holstein-Friesian spring calving dairy cows. Data were from 66 commercial dairy herds during the years 1999 and 2000. The data consisted of up to 9886 lactations with records for BCS or WT at least once pre-calving, or at calving, nad...

Prevention of antibiotic residues in milk is an important aspect in milk production to ensure health protection for the consumer and high quality of milk for dairy processing. Limited information is available on the potential impact of milking frequencies associated with Automatic Milking (AM) on excretion of veterinary drugs in milk. Under experimental conditions the excretion of antibiotics i...

the present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of extruded linseed on milk production,dry matter intake and reproduction performance of 300 holstein lactating cows (35±15 days in milk;41±9/8 kg/day of milk production). cows were placed in a completely randomized design of 2treatments (concentrate containing 7 percent of extruded linseed vs. control), (150 cows pertreatment). cows were ...

BACKGROUND Whether the measurement of cortisol in dairy cows can be used as a biomarker of adverse environmental or pathophysiological conditions is still under of scientific debate. In these situations, several systems mainly the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, the autonomic nervous system, and the immune system are recruited to reestablish homeostasis. A first aim of the present study wa...

The present experiment aimed to evaluate the effect of HMBi on the production performance and metabolism in dairy cows. Thirty multiparous Holstein dairy cows under similar conditions were randomly assigned to three dietary treatments; i) Control, a basal diet; ii) T1, a basal diet plus HMBi (0 g prepartum and 18 g postpartum); and iii) T2, a basal diet plus HMBi (10 g prepartum and 18 g postpa...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that over-nutrition in early infancy may programme long-term susceptibility to insulin resistance. OBJECTIVE To assess the association of breast milk and quantity of infant formula and cows' milk intake during infancy with insulin resistance measures in early adulthood. DESIGN Long-term follow-up of the Barry Caerphilly Growth cohort, into which mothers a...

Two trials were implemented to explore nutritional strategies to improve lactation performance of dairy cows fed red clover silage (RCS)-based diets. In Trial 1, 18 earlyto midlactation dairy cows were assigned to a replicated 3 × 3 Latin square trial design and fed diets containing forage bases of all RCS, a mixture of RCS and brown midrib corn silage (BMR), and a mixture of RCS and normal cor...

An epidemiologic study was conducted on 581 dairy cows (indigenous and its crosses 371, exotic crosses 210) of 4 government establishments to find prevalence of udder and teat diseases and their association with udder and teat characteristic, milk yield and milk flow rate in dairy cows. Mastitis (25.5%) was most common disease followed by udder skin diseases (15.0%) and teat diseases (12.6%). P...

Milk yield and its composition vary according to individual cows as well as to a variety of different environment conditions, such as temperature. Previous studies suggest that heat exerts considerable negative effects on milk production and its composition, especially during summer months. We investigate the production and fat composition of milk from individual dairy cows and develop a modell...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of unmodified cows' milk and iron supplemented formula milk on psychomotor development in infants from inner city areas when used as the main milk source. DESIGN Double blind, randomised intervention trial. SETTING Birmingham health centre. SUBJECTS 100 infants, mean age 7.8 months (range 5.7 to 8.6 months), whose mothers had already elected to use unmodifi...