The efficiency of feed utilization on dairy farms can be influenced by a variety of practices that are beyond the scope of this paper, including many aspects of the harvesting, storage, mixing, and delivery of feed components, as well as the grouping of animals according to nutritional needs. Two practices that will be addressed are: 1) improvement of the biological efficiency of lactating cows...

The New Zealand dairy industry faces political and commercial pressure to improve its environmental performance while maintaining commercial competitiveness in a global marketplace. In response to such pressures, the industry has taken some steps to improve the environmental management practices of dairy farmers. Despite significant effort, however, the dairy sector remains highly influenced by...

agriculture sector in iran and some other countries of the world has a vital role in national development. animal husbandry sub-sector needed meat of the society, creating related jobs and producing raw materials of some industries. acquiring scientific and sound information of the current situation of regions are important and imitative step in improvement program planning. the purpose of this...

Artificial insemination of farm animals is very common in today's animal husbandry in the developed world, especially for breeding dairy cattle (75% of all inseminations) and swine (up to 85% of all inseminations). It is used for breeding buffaloes, sheep, goats, horses, dogs and a variety of laboratory animals as well. It allows a male to inseminate a much larger number of females and to use t...

The success of Johne's disease (JD) control programs based on risk assessment (RA) depends on producers' compliance with suggested management practices. One objective of this study was to describe the perception of participating Canadian dairy farmers of the impact of JD, the RA process, and suggested management strategies. The second objective was to describe the cost of changes in management ...

Abstract Our article discusses ways to increase efficiency through the application of innovations in farms specializing animal husbandry. Livestock is one leading sectors agriculture Uzbekistan. Meat, dairy and egg products population provide industry with leather, wool other raw materials. In today’s market economy, most important tasks Uzbekistan high quality, environmentally friendly afforda...

background: eimeria infection is an important part of protozoal infection in ruminants which causes economic lost in animal husbandry of iran and worldwide. therefore it is important to implement effective control programs on the prevalence and diversity of eimeria species in livestocks. objectives: this study was aimed to determine prevalence and eimeria species diversity in dairy cattle with ...