Twenty one multiparous, nonpregnant, lactating dairy cows were used to assess the impact of stage of lactation on visceral tissue mass and small intestinal cell proliferation. Cows were slaughtered at each of 4 stages of lactation: 14, 90, 120, and 240 d of lactation. With stage of lactation, DMI increased through d 90 and thereafter remained similar through d 240 (quadratic). Carcass weight an...

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of age of cows, i.e. subsequent lactation and stage of lactation, on bioactive whey protein content in milk of dairy cows of six primary breeds kept in Poland. In all cases the significant correlations between lactoferrin concentration in milk and stage of lactation was stated. Its content gradually increased with the course of lactation but the ...

the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of principal components (pc) of the regression coefficients (co)variance matrix on the lactation curve, and on the formation of selection index to modify the curve, based on these pc’s, and as well to estimate additive genetic and phenotypic variances and heritability of the constructed selection index. lactation period of 301 d (5-305) ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to describe the relationship between milk yield and lactation number, stage, length and milking frequency in Korean Holstein dairy cows using an automatic milking system (AMS). METHODS The original data set consisted of observations from April to October 2016 of 780 Holstein cows, with a total of 10,751 milkings. Each time a cow was milked by an AMS ...

Lactation records for milk, fat, and protein yields were calculated from test-day data adjusted for the effects of lactation stage, age, previous days open, days pregnant, and test-day class (herd, test date, and milking frequency). Those lactation records reflect the improved accounting of environmental effects from a test-day model and can be combined with historical lactation records. Test-d...

The experiment was carried out on lactating Holstein Friesian cows with the objectives of evaluating the effect of stage of age, pregnancy, lactation, parity and on yield, and components (fat, protein, solid not fat and lactose) and pH of milk. Milk samples were directly collected from the teat and immediately analysed using milk. The result showed that lactation stage and pregnancy significant...

The expression of bovine interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) in the late stage of the lactation period in milk cells was detected with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). IFN-gamma was detected with all primer concentrations, 0.2, 0.5 and 1 microM. IL-2 however, was faintly detected only with 0.5 microM primer concentration. It was shown that IFN-gamma m ...

Corresponding Author: Svatoslav Hluchy Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources, Slovak University of Agriculture, 94976 Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, Slovakia Email: [email protected] Abstract: The objective of the research was to study the changes of the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) in mammary epithelial cells of rabbits during lactation and regression stages. Our results using conventional ...

The aim of research was to evaluate changes of physico-chemical characteristics, somatic cell count and curd quality during lactation and their relationship in Lacaune ewes. The study was carried out on eighteen ewes of the second lactation on an organic farm in Valašská Bystřice (Czech Republic). It was found that the stage of lactation significantly affected almost all monitored traits except...