Maintaining a healthy cow herd means maintaining a healthy rumen. Over the holiday season, humans may experience stomach ...
Before we talk about using sugar for dairy cows, we need to understand what we are discussing. Sugar is a carbohydrate and ...
Ensure a smooth transition to spring grass with expert grazing strategies, rumen health tips, and nutritional advice to boost cow performance ...
“A rule of thumb is that a bull can breed one female per month of age, so if he is a 15-month-old bull, he can be in a ...
The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost. As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in th ...
Using the rumen liquid samples, the scientists are studying the microbes that convert hydrogen into methane, which is not digested by the cow but instead burped out. A single cow will burp roughly ...
It's very common every spring to hear about suckler cows going down with Tetany, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy ...
An on-going project studying dairy cow subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) aims at getting exact data from cows` rumen around calving in field circumstances. With modern equipment, it is possible to ...