Hypermagnesemia without Clinical Symptoms in Dairy Cattle

Clinical and subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle in Kampala, Uganda

Dairy farming in Uganda provides a source of food, employment and income. Previous studies have revealed high frequencies of bovine mastitis, a costly disease for the dairy farmer. The aims of this study were to investigate the bacteriological panorama in milk from udder quarters with clinical (CM) and subclinical mastitis (SCM) and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility in staphylococca...

Neosporosis in dairy cattle.

Inbreeding in Dairy Cattle

Inbreeding is defined as half of the genetic relationship between an animal’s parents. For example, the offspring from a mating of animals A and B, which have the same father, will have 12.5 percent inbreeding, because the genetic relationship between A and B is 25 percent. Statistical methods to select the best sires of each generation have been developed, making it feasible to achieve any pos...

Longevity in Dairy Cattle

Longevity of productive life in dairy cattle is a characteristic difficult to evaluate. This measurement is complicated, in part, because the phenotype is expressed late in the life of the animal, but also because the methods of evaluation are complex. The molecular bases of longevity are still far from being fully understood, although some genes begin to be associated with this characteristic....

Clinical Management of Babesiosis in Crossbred Dairy Cattle

Four months back calved crossbred dairy cow had history of coffee coloured urine. Blood smear and Blood samples of this cow were collected on the day of acute stage of infection and then 15th day of post treatment for haematological parameters. Based on the clinical pathonomonic symptom (coffee coloured urine) and blood smear examination presence of Babesia bigemina organisms the disease was di...