Presence of mastitis in pregnant as well as unbred dairy heifers can adversely affect the development of milk-producing tissues, leading to less than maximal milk production and increased SCC during their first lactation. Use of nonlactating cow therapy or teat sealants have been beneficial in curing existing IMI and preventing new IMI from developing. When used together, the combination of the...

Cattle comfort is one of the main factors which influence profitability of dairy farms due to its association with involuntary culling, cow longevity, and productive life. Productive life has been defined as the number of lactations a cow completes before she is culled. A productive cow that remains longer in a farm allows for fixed and variable costs to be diluted. Furthermore, fewer replaceme...

Beef cow-calf efficiency has been a topic of several review and symposium papers. A primary focus of many discussions on beef cowherd efficiency has centered on reproductive success and calf yield per cow, or more simplistically calf weight divided by cow weight. Reproduction and weaning weight are important but research has also demonstrated potential benefit from selecting for metabolic effic...

OBJECTIVE To study the carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatoprotective activity in cow urine. METHODS Effect of cow urine distillate on liver function was studied in vivo in rats intoxicated with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Hepatotoxicity was induced by a 1:1 (v/v) mixture of CCl4 in olive oil (5 mL/kg i.p). Protective effect of cow urine distillate (in three dose levels) and standard drug Sil...

OBJECTIVES Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) harbor a network of abnormal vasculatures, namely the nidus between arterial and venous components. The pressure gradient between these two components results in abnormal high-velocity arteriovenous shunts flowing through the nidus and alternate intracranial hemodynamics. This study hypothesizes that the flow patterns of the circle of Willi...

Effects of cow BW, hip height, and estimated genetic potentials (EBV) for weaning weight direct and milk on cow productivity, fecal OM output, OM intake, and efficiency (kilograms of calf BW/kilogram of OM intake by the cow) were evaluated with 44 free-grazing crossbred cows under semidesert conditions. Calf BW were measured during early, mid-, and late lactation. Data were collected in four pe...

Four different types of rasomalai were prepared from cow milk chhana (acid curd) with the addition of different levels of soy chhana. The prepared rasomalai were named as ‘A’ (100% cow milk chhana), ‘B’ (75% cow milk chhana+25% Soy Chhana), ‘C’ (50% cow milk chhana+50% soy chhana) and ‘D’ (25% cow milk chhana+75% soy chhana). The qualities of prepared rasomalai were evaluated by using physical ...