Fat Cow Syndrome

Supplementing Fat to the Cow Herd

Using Fat in Lactating Cow Rations

1. This document is DS19, one of a series of the Animal Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date March 1988. Reviewed June 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. B. Harris, Jr., extension dairy specialist, Dairy Science Department, Cooperative Extension Service,...

Digestive utilization of goat and cow milk fat in malabsorption syndrome.

We studied the effects of goat and cow milk fat on the digestive utilization of this nutrient and on some of the biochemical parameters that are related to the metabolisim of lipids, using rats with a resection of 50% of the distal small intestine and control animals (transected). The fat content in all the diets was 10% but the lipid quality was varied: the standard diet was based on olive oil...

Component Fatty Acids from the Fat of Cow Colostrum*

In connection with a recent study on human milk fat (1.) an opportunity was afforded to measure qualitatively and quantitatively the fatty acid distribution in the fat from human milk collected during the first 3 days of lactation. Some differences in composition were observed ,for these colostrum samples when they were compared with mature human milk fat. It was considered desirable therefore ...

Fat and Fat-Soluble Vitamin Supplementation for Improving Reproduction of the Dairy Cow

The scientific literature contains evidence that the nutrient status of lactating dairy cows can have a direct bearing on reproductive status. Pregnancy rate has been improved by manipulating the mineral (Hurley and Doane, 1989), vitamin (Seymour, 2001), energy (Butler, 2001), protein (Butler, 1998), and lipid fractions (Staples et al., 1998) of the diet. Nevertheless the amount of knowledge in...