Impact of Agricultural Credit on Cotton Yield and Welfare of Tenants A case Study of Gezira Scheme This study was conducted in the Gezira Scheme which is largest cotton production Scheme in the Sudan. Cotton represents the major cash crop in the Sudan. The study is an attempt to investigate ...
Secondly, the desire to maximise productivity of an animal can directly undermine its health and welfare, creating new problems to which care practices must respond. Breeding for ‘double muscling’ in Belgian Blue beef cattle for instance can compromise the welfare of the animal and the ease of...
A scheme for path analysis of SNP effects for five milk-related traits. MY: milk yield; pH: milk pH; LACT: lactose; SCS: somatic cell score; NCN: casein (expressed as % of total milk N). The blue arrows indicate the direction of relationship according to the learned causal structure. ...
During 2 visits (before and after training) a survey was administered to identify management practices in place that concern dairy cow welfare and BQA, and an attempt was made to evaluate every lactating cow for BCS and locomotion score. The number of measures in place to avoid residues in ...
Lameness is a painful clinical condition of the bovine locomotor system that results in alterations of movement. Together with mastitis and infertility, lameness is the main welfare, health, and production problem found in intensive dairy farms worldwide
It was proven that the system could effectively monitor animal welfare and the estrus cycle in a real-life test [63]. Studies on the health monitoring of dairy cows using information technology are presented in Table 2. 3.3.1. Mastitis Detection Mastitis is considered one of the most ...
The aim of this study was to determine whether ante-mortem measures of welfare in beef and dairy cattle (N = 305) were associated with post-mortem measures at a United Kingdom (UK) abattoir. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the ability of ante-mortem measures of lameness,...
This model can be easily applied using affordable RGB camera systems to obtain all the proposed targets, including eye temperature, which can also be used to model animal welfare and biotic/abiotic stress. Furthermore, these models can be readily deployed in conventional dairy farms. Keywords: ...
The high disease incidence frequently found in early lactation adversely affects cow welfare, reduces milk production capacity and fertility and increases the likelihood of culling [1,35]. This has raised the need to improve our understanding of the links between nutrition, metabolism and the immune...
Moreover, if society and customers of the dairy industry view these new technologies as invasive or impersonal over being aids and precision health care tools to enhance animal care and welfare, then these precision technologies will not be able to help improve feed efficiency or other metrics ...