Both the size and the species of the herbivores on your land affect the amount of forage they eat. For example, using an intake rate of 2.5 percent of body weight at body condition score 5, you would expect a 1,200-pound cow to eat 30 pounds of forage dry matter per day, compared to 25 pounds for a 1,000-pound cow. On the other hand, as a percentage of body weight, small herbivore species have ...

Grain legumes are feedstuffs with high nutritional value that could replace soybean in dairy sheep nutrition. This be beneficial terms of economic efficiency and environmental sustainability. However, research regarding their potential effects on animal performance is scarce. The objective was to assess milk production body condition score (BCS) intensively reared ewes after replacing meal a mi...

thin ewes or very over-conditioned ewes and ewes carrying multiple pregnanciesare more likely to develop pregnancy toxemia (ketosis). pregnancy toxemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by hypoglycemia and hyperketonemia resulting from incapacity of the ewes to maintain adequate energy balance (usually in the last 5-6 weeks).available information about pregnancy toxemia focuses mainly on pa...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relation between different indices of milk yield andbody condition score (bcs) with the commencement of the luteal activity (c-la) during the postpartumperiod in high producing dairy cows. seventy-one multiparous healthy (free of detectable reproductivedisorders) holstein dairy cows (mean peak milk yield = 56.7 ± 7.4 kg) were used in the prese...