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Mastitis in Dairy Cows

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Large Animal Practice, 1981
No disease in dairy cattle is affected more by total management than is the level of mastitis. The maintenance of a sanitary, comfortable environment and the execution of proper milking procedures used with properly functioning milking machines are all important in reducing and maintaining a low level of new infection in a herd.
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Dairy cow reproductive performance

Veterinary Record, 2015
BIJKER and others (2015) make some interesting contributions to existing knowledge on the relationship between subclinical mastitis and reproductive performance (specifically pregnancy rate) in dairy cows. As mentioned in the article, our group has previously published work in this field (Hudson and others 2012), based on a study using data from 105 ...
Chris, Hudson, Martin, Green
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Ruminal acidosis in dairy cows

Veterinary Record, 2013
WE would like to report an unusual outbreak of ruminal acidosis in freshly calved dairy cows. The affected herd of 200 cows is located in south Ayrshire and experienced four similar cases over a period of 10 days. All four cases had appeared well before calving and had been in a calving pen for a few consecutive nights where a camera allowed for easy ...
Stephen, Raphael, Helen, Carty
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Extracranial meningioma in a dairy cow

Veterinary Record, 2005
MENINGIOMA is one of the most common primary intracranial tumours in cats and dogs, but is rarely reported in cattle (Koestner and Higgins 2002). The meningiomas that have been found in cattle have been primary intracranial tumours (Bwangamoi and Sachs 1969, Yadgirker and others 1970, Josephson and Little 1990).
K, Yamada, K, Ishihara, I, Yasutomi, Y, Kobayashi, H, Ueno, K, Miyahara, H, Furuoka   +6 more
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Nutritional myodegeneration in dairy cows

Veterinary Record, 1978
A syndrome is described in which parturient dairy cows showed clinical signs consistent with milk fever but failed to respond to conventional therapy. The affected cows were reluctant to walk, moved stiffy and in severe cases became recumbent. The condition was apparently precipitated by low vitaimin E and selenium intake, stress of pregnancy and in ...
M, Gitter, R, Bradley, R, Pepper
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Improving dairy cow welfare

Veterinary Record, 2011
Better monitoring will be fundamental to efforts to improve dairy cow welfare, says Dick Esslemont , who calls for the introduction of a scientifically designed and rigorously implemented national cow and calf recording scheme FOLLOWING several recent reports on animal welfare and on new approaches to veterinary intervention (FAWC 2009a, 2009b, Lowe ...
Catherine, McLaughlin, Brian, Lindsay
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The Dairy Cow

Nature, 1963
The Dairy Cow Reproduction, Genetics, Nutrition, Habitat, Principal Diseases. By C. Craplet, translated by Catherine T. M. Herriott. Pp. xv + 452. (London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1963.) 130s.
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Traumatic duodenitis in a dairy cow

Veterinary Record, 1978
The history, clinical signs, and clinical pathology in a mature Holstein cow were consistent with a diagnosis of intussusception, but the lesion found during exploratory laparotomy consisted of a penetrating wire in the anterior duodenum.
P C, Mullowney, R H, Whitlock
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Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis in a dairy cow

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1997
A 9-year-old Holstein cow was evaluated for colic and decreased milk production of 2 days' duration. Preoperative serum biochemical results suggested hepatic damage and cholestasis. On the basis of persistent signs of abdominal pain that were nonresponsive to analgesics, exploratory laparotomy was performed.
C S, Cable, W C, Rebhun, L A, Fortier
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Magnesium status of dairy cows

New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1985
Abstract Extract Madam:– Magnesium has been identified as an important mineral in the nutrition of dairy eows and reeent findings in New Zealand(1) emphasize this importance. For example, a large survey of dairy animals(2) showed one-third of almost one million cows could be suffering from hypomagnesemia.
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