A questionnaire was sent to 1500 randomly selected dairy herds in Sweden, asking for general information about the herds, including routines from birth to first calving and also routines at breeding, calving and during the grazing period. Fifty-eight percent of the questionnaires were returned. The preweaned calves were kept in individual calf pens in 68% and in group housing systems in 28% of ...

This 4-yr study was conducted with Angus (A)-sired and Polled Hereford (PH)-sired crossbred heifers that were exposed to either A or medium-frame Brahman (B) bulls from primiparous calvings either as 2- or 3-yr-olds. Each year, heifers were allotted at random within breed composition and age of dam to breeding groups on pasture for an 84-d breeding period that began in late March or early April...

The present investigation was undertaken to access age at first calving, actual lifetime milk yield per day of productive life, herd life and total life. non-genetic factors such as period birth, season AFC group farms on these traits were studied by least-squares analysis the means compared using Duncan's multiple range test. for estimated 1668.3±16.6 days, 1.878±0.04 litres/day, 1.735±0.05 li...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) in Khorasan Razavi and Khorasan Shomali provinces which are the main provinces located in the northeast of Iran. Total number of 429 blood samples were collected from industrial dairy herds. The samples were categorized based on province, age (2-3, 4-6, and 7-10 years old), calving (≤ 2, 3-5, and > 5) and h...

The current research aimed to determine Bali cattle's productivity in Bumirestu, Akedaga, and Dakaino Villages East Halmahera Regency. This was carried out Villages, Regency, for three months, from February April 2018. A presurvey field survey methods were applied observe several variables: calf weaning, mothers mating after calving, estrus age first calving age, body weight. Livestock could be...