The articles in this issue review pertinent and specific information about infectious and noninfectious disease, housing system design and function, husbandry practices and techniques, and Internet resources as they specifically relate to zebrafish (Danio rerio). This article explores aspects that members of institutional animal care and use committees, husbandry care staff, physical plant pers...

and cost-benefit calculations to improve management practices regarding health status in organic dairy farming Exploration of policy options recovery progress and documentation of the success of therapy. While the therapeutic success is the result of the overall effort invested in improved living conditions and treatment effort, the level of envisaged cure rate determines the means and the degr...

The unhygienic handling practices in traditional camel milk production and in the informal camel milk trade represent serious obstacles for the introduction of modern dairy processing and marketing. The successful adaptation of pastoral subsistence production to the needs of an improved camel milk production and marketing system will depend, to a large extent, on safeguarding the milk quality a...

Hypodermosis is responsible for significant economic losses and remains a current problem in animal husbandry. This study determined the extent of Hypoderma spp. invasion in north-eastern Poland in dairy herds. The extent of the invasion, determined on the basis of positive results of an ELISA assay (Bovine Hypodermosis Milk Screening of Institut Pourquier), varied in herds. Statistical analysi...

This study aimed at assessing the husbandry practices and evaluates impact of feed optimization on productive performances reproductive disorders dairy cows. The was conducted in purposefully selected Harar Dire Dawa cities 76 16 farms respectively. Data were collected by use semi-structured questionnaires focused group discussion. Commonly used feeds analyzed for their nutrition standardized t...

Johne’s disease (JD) is a chronic, production-limiting disease of ruminants. Control programs aiming to minimize the effects of the disease on the dairy industry have been launched in many countries, including Canada. Those programs commonly focus on strict hygiene and management improvement, often combined with various testing methods. Concurrently, organic dairy farming has been increasing in...

For the Indian Dairy Industry, efforts need to be directed to accelerating the pace of application and adoption of modern technologies to improving productivity, and to reducing costs of operations and ensure greater availability of milk and milk products. To attain this, national development programs need to be dove tailed with state Governments programmes on animal husbandry and dairying, pov...

The levels and composition of agricultural dusts are influenced by animal species, production strategy, housing type and ventilation efficiency. Agricultural dust within animal houses is complex and consists of feed particles, microbes and their products, dander, fecal matter, gases, metals and other organic and inorganic components. Livestock and poultry production facilities may be categorize...