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: Mastitis represents an important health problem for Santa Inês breed, causing losses to the producer, due to loss of ewes or the decrease in weight gain of lambs.
Priscilla F.V. Pereira+7 more
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Dairy farmers can change: results of a five-year national mastitis control program in The Netherlands [PDF]
Over the years, much effort has been put into mastitis control programs. To further improve such programs, we need to understand farmers’ knowledge, attitude and behavior regarding udder health, and the way this can be influenced by mastitis control ...
Jansen, J.+3 more
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Udder health concepts that comply with organic principles - how to reduce therapies? [PDF]
Both the consumers and the legislators expect products from healthy organic livestock. Consequently, keeping farm animals healthy has the highest priority in veterinary work on organic farms.
Heil, Fritz+4 more
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ABSTRACT Change in climate over the past years and its impact on the environment have necessitated the inclusion of resilience traits in the breeding objectives of dairy cattle. However, the relationship between resilience and other traits of economic importance in dairy production is currently not well known. This study examined the genetic parameters
R. D. Oloo+7 more
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ABSTRACT In this study, we aimed to evaluate the genetic association between fertility traits, milk yield and the fat: protein ratio (FPR) on the test day in primiparous Holstein cows. The analysed traits were milk yield (TDMY) and FPR assessed on the test day, as well as the following fertility traits: period from calving to first service (CFS), days ...
Amauri Felipe Evangelista+5 more
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Preinfection in vitro chemotaxis, phagocytosis, oxidative burst, and expression of CD11/CD18 receptors and their predictive capacity on the outcome of mastitis induced in dairy cows with Escherichia coli. [PDF]
Four to 6 wk after parturition, 12 cows in second, fourth, or fifth lactation were experimentally infected in one gland with Escherichia coli. The capacity of chemotaxis, phagocytosis, oxidative burst, and expression of CD11/CD18 receptors to predict the
A. Brand+30 more
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Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, EarlyView.
Elizabeth D. Hetherington+2 more
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ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare milk production, milk components and feed intake of Fleckvieh, Brown Swiss and Fleckvieh × Red Holstein dairy cows kept under identical feeding and management conditions. The study examined efficiency parameters in relation to feed, energy, protein, and metabolic weight of the three breeds.
Annika Bosch+5 more
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Mastitis is defined as inflammation of the mammary gland and is characterized by local and systemic symptoms that occasionally cause a general infection. This illness has a heavy impact on cows’ wellbeing and milk quality.
Nabila Boukhalfa+3 more
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Mastitis is an infectious or non-infectious breast disease associated with breast inflammation. It is observed most frequently during milk stasis (engorgement) and lactation period (puerperal) with superimposed infection. Most mastitides heal with simple
Fazilet Erözgen+2 more
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