Health events are undesirable events in dairy farms, and in my opinion are one of the biggest challenges the dairy industry has been facing. Although the incidence of some specific diseases, such as ...

Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) wishes to bring to the attention of farmers the need to consider the risk of liver ...

Farmers have asked me many times whether it is possible for a livestock farm to be completely free of diseases. My outright answer, even straight from a deep midnight sleep is a resounding “no”.

Editor’s note: This is the first of a six-part series on transition cow management that will run in 2015. When it comes to fresh cow health, an ounce of prevention can result in pounds more milk, ...

NAIROBI: A significant number of farmers has incurred huge losses from treatments, loss of milk and even death of high yielding cows from milk fever and Ketosis. This has created fear of keeping high ...

Cows will naturally go through a negative energy balance when they enter into lactation as their body adjusts from the dry period into milk production. We know, though, that problems start cropping up ...

Dairy cows in the peripartum period experience negative energy balance (NEB). NEB stimulates the mobilization of body fat, leading to the production of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) and ...

MADISON, Wis. — Dairy replacement heifer numbers have fallen almost 15% over the last six years, reaching a 20-year low, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With this smaller-than-ever ...

The advent of rumen activity monitoring has provided a window into the inner functions of dairy-cow digestion and allowed for early identification of important health and behavior events. Research ...

Abstract: Determining subclinical ketosis of dairy cows is of great importance in terms of economic losses because ketotic cows even in subclinical ketosis reduce milk production. When dairy cows are ...