Group G streptococci in animals usually belong to the species Streptococcus canis and are most commonly found in dogs and cats. Occasionally, Strep. canis is detected in milk from dairy cows. An outbreak of Strep. canis mastitis in a dairy herd is described. Based on results from bacterial culture and ribotyping, a cat with chronic sinusitis was the most likely source of the outbreak. Subsequen...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a rumen-protected niacin product (NiaShure, Balchem Corp., New Hampton, NY) on lactation performance by dairy cows during the summer in Wisconsin. Eighty lactating dairy cows (63 ± 29 DIM) were used in a 10-wk lactation trial (a 2-wk pretreatment covariate period followed by an 8-wk treatment period). Cows were stratified by breed, parit...

Both the cow and the sheep are susceptible to ketosis. In the cow the clinical condition is termed primary spontaneous bovine ketosis and in the sheep, pregnancy toxaemia. Bovine ketosis occurs typically in the third to eighth week of lactation in mature heavily lactating diary cows. Pregnancy toxaemia occufs in late pregnancy in ewes bearing two or more lambs. Both conditions are associated wi...

A receptive uterine environment is a key component in determining a successful reproductive outcome. We tested the hypothesis that endometrial gene expression patterns differ in fertile and subfertile dairy cow strains. Twelve lactating dairy cattle of strains characterized as having fertile (n = 6) and subfertile (n = 6) phenotypes underwent embryo transfer on day 7 of the reproductive cycle. ...

Milk lipid globules from humans, cows and rats contained a protein identified as adipocyte differentiation-related protein (ADRP) associated with the globule surface membrane material. This protein, previously believed to be specific to adipocytes, was a major constituent of the globule surface and was present in a detergent-insoluble complex that contained stoichiometric amounts of butyrophili...

The Nature of the Problem Heat stress has two major actions on physiology of the female that reduce the probability of a cow becoming pregnant. First, heat stress reduces ability to detect estrus. On one dairy in Florida, only about 18-24% of estruses in hot months were detected by herdsmen while 45-56% of estrus periods were detected in cool months (Thatcher and Collier, 1986). The reduction i...