Antibiotic dry-cow treatment contributes a major part to the total use of antibiotics in dairy herds. Enterococcus faecium strain SF68 (SF68) was of human origin but has been authorized in EU as probiotic feed additive. In the present study, one of the front and rear quarters of twelve late lactation Holstein-Friesian cows were infused once with a commercial antibiotic dry-cow formula (antibiot...

Transiently increased teat wall thickness in response to machine milking has been documented by various methods, including ultrasound. However, correlative ultrasonography and histology detect the origin of this phenomenon is lacking. The first goal present study was evaluate compare milking-related changes tissue 2 breeds dairy cows (11 Simmental 3 Holstein) using B-mode ultrasonography. Addit...

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a recently emerged Orthobunyavirus of ruminants originally discovered in 2011 near the town of Schmallenberg in Germany (Hoffmann and others 2012). SBV appears to have entered Europe in the summer of 2011 and has since spread rapidly across much of central and northern Europe. Seroprevalence in some areas has been reported close to 100 per cent (Tarlinton and others...

Excellent reviews of cattle breed comparisons or breed-cross comparisons have been previously reported by Franke (1980), Long (1980), and Marshall (1994). However, these reviews do not contain information on the calving ease, performance, carcass characteristics, or beef palatability of crossbred progeny of Holstein dams sired by different beef breeds. In many countries dairy females are common...

To implement precision feeding for dairy cow, an intelligent multiconcentrates feeding system was developed. The system consists of two parts, one is precision ingredients control subsystem, the other is multi-concentrates discharge subsystem. The former controls the latter with 4 stepper motors. The precision ingredients control subsystem was designed based on Samsung S3C2440 ARM9 microprocess...

Johne's disease ('paratuberculosis') is a chronic, infectious, wasting disease that affects dairy cattle. Estimation of its impact on herd productivity and corresponding economic loss on US dairy operations was part of the USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System's (NAHMS) 1996 national dairy study. Johne's-positive herds experience an economic loss of almost US$ 100 per cow when compared ...


 Penelitian tampilan reproduksi sapi FH (Friesian Hostain) di KPBS Pangalengan telah dilakukan. Tujuan pe- nelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui, mengkaji dan mengevaluasi Ka- bupaten Bandung. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode survei, pengambilan data dilakukan secara purposive sampling dengan kriteria perah yang sudah laktasi beranak minimal dua kali serta melakukan pada 47 responden a...

Differences in feed intake and production efficiency in lactating Holstein-Friesian (HF), Jersey (JE), and JE × HF (F(1)) dairy cows have been reported. The liver-gut axis is important in the regulation of energy homeostasis, appetite behaviour, and production efficiency. The objectives of this study were to determine: 1) the effect of dairy cow genotype on the expression profiles of genes invo...

The objective of this study was to validate an electronic system for monitoring individual feeding behavior and feed intake (Intergado Ltd., Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil) in freestall-housed dairy cattle. No data have been published that validate either the behavioral measurement or the feed intake of this system. Feeding behavior data were recorded for 12 Holstein cows over 5d using an Inter...

The herd dynamic milk (HDM) model is a dynamic model capable of simulating the performance of individual dairy animals (from birth to death), with a daily time step. Within this study, the HDM model is described and evaluated in relation to milk production, body condition score (BCS) and BCS change throughout lactation by comparing model simulations against data from published experimental stud...