A new Israeli study has discovered that extreme heat reduces milk production by up to 10% and that adding cooling ...

Dairy farming, in particular, can involve long hours and substantial physical activity, especially on farms that practice block calving—when cows in a herd all calve during a set period of time ...

[2] Sensor data on cow activity, rumination, and ear temperature improve prediction of the start of calving in dairy cows. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2017).

Taking time to evaluate low mastitis rates but high spring cell counts in their 250-cow spring-calving herd prompted Emmie ...

More than 10% of heifers calved in with a high somatic cell count at their first milk recording, according to data from herds ...

This is an important process to help prevent milk fever in the period immediately post-calving. 2. Selenium Selenium is transferred readily across the placenta and therefore feeding good levels to the ...

In my experience, dairy cows are routinely caused pain and distress, ... he estimated he had forcibly impregnated nearly 75,000 cows. In a natural state, the cow-calf bond is strong, ...

A baby dairy animal is called a calf, weighing 80-100 pounds when it’s born. A young female calf is called a heifer, and a young male calf is called a bull. An adult female who has had a calf is ...

The typical dairy cow in the United States will spend its entire life inside a concrete-floored enclosure, ... Mr. Chittenden with a new calf, one of the 1,500 Jersey cows on his farm.

Recent advances in dairy cattle calving and neonatal care have integrated sophisticated monitoring systems, data analytics and automated prediction models to enhance both animal welfare and farm ...