Twenty multiparous Holstein cows in midlactation grazed pastures of 4 forage mixtures in a 12-wk study repeated during 2 grazing seasons to determine if forage mixture complexity affected intake and productivity of lactating dairy cows. The forage mixtures were 1) orchardgrass plus white clover [2 species (SP)]; 2) orchardgrass, white clover, and chicory (3SP); 3) orchardgrass, tall fescue, per...

Nutritional grouping is a herd management strategy that provides different diets to different groups of lactating cows to better fulfill their nutrient requirements. Hence, it can be beneficial by saving feed costs, improving productivity, improving herd health, and decreasing nutrient emissions to the environment (Cabrera and Kalantari, 2016). Total mixed rations have become an industry standa...

Both clinical and subclinical deficiency of calcium and magnesium may cause problems in dairy cows. Clinical hypocalcaemia most commonly occurs at calving and onset of lactation and is associated with milk fever, while clinical hypomagnesaemia occurs under certain dietary conditions. Factors affecting the calcium and magnesium status in dairy cows were examined in this thesis. The effect of die...

Objectives were to compare circulating progesterone (P4) profile and pregnancies per AI (P/AI) of two commercial intravaginal P4 devices (PRID-Delta(®) vs CIDR(®)). In Experiment 1, ovariectomized dairy cows (PRID-Delta, n=6 vs CIDR, n=6) were sampled throughout 7 days to measure circulating P4. In Experiment 2 (PRID-Delta, n=399 vs CIDR, n=375), cows were assigned to treatments, as follows: D0...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of concentrations of forages and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) on production of lactating dairy cows. Twelve Holstein cows were assigned randomly to replicated 4 × 4 Latin squares in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Diets were formulated containing low forage (LF; 41% of diet DM) or high forage (HF; 60% of die...

The daily challenge of getting cows pregnant is nothing new to any dairy producer. What is new is the variety of approaches that researchers are taking to understand the mechanisms underlying this problem and propose effective solutions to it. Our applied reproductive research program is focused on controlling ovarian physiology to optimize fertility of lactating dairy cows. Our goal is to deve...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of inclusion of monensin alone or in combination with methafix (a commercial product containing malate and fumarate) in the diets of lactating dairy cows on ruminal parameters and serum metabolites. four multiparous holstein lactating dairy cows (657± 12 kg of live weight; 133 ± 41days in milk) were assigned to one of the four dietary treatments....

Relevance. Studies on the assessment of pro- and antioxidant status body productive animalsare relevant, since they are interconnected with health, state immune reproductive systems. There is a steadily growing information in field oxidative stress animal husbandry veterinary medicine, which indicates general importance defense impaired health productivity ruminants. need to translate this know...

Kitaw, G., Gebregziabhear, E., Urge, B., Mulatu, Y. and Acheampong, E.N. 2022. Nutritional characterization evaluation of bamboo leaves hay potential as a basal diet for lactating crossbred cows in Ethiopia. Animal Nutrition Feed Technology, 22: 107–121.

Previous research indicates that high blood urea nitrogen (BUN) concentrations are associated with decreased fertility in lactating dairy cows.This experiment was done to evaluate the effects of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) administration (with or without eCG) on fertility of lactating dairy cows with different levels of BUN subjected to fixed-time artificial insemination (FTAI).Ovulatio...