Brown Swiss are the largest of the dairy breeds, and as their name implies usually solid brown in color. The average Brown Swiss cow weighs about 1,500 lbs. which makes them the biggest and strongest dairy breed. Their strong stature makes them very resilient, and free of common cattle pro...
The origins of the Jersey cow are something of a mystery. However, they were originally bred on the British Channel Island of Jersey as their name implies. 18% moreprotein when compared to other breeds Read More Brown Swiss Quite possibly the oldest breed of dairy cattle in the world, the...
Confinement management systems continue to be popular around the world to optimize milk production and cow health as herd sizes continue to increase. Four production curves must be monitored and managed including the milk production curve (determines milk volume), milk component curves (impact milk ...
To reduce calving difficulty, speed genetic improvement and leverage profit opportunities, the farm uses sexed semen on first-calf heifers to produce female calves and breeds older cows to Angus bulls, selling the crossbred bull calves into a branded beef program. “We don’t keep offspring from...
(PLP, 2018b).The animals reared are cattle (GirandKankrejbreeds), buffaloes (Mehsani,Jafrabadi,SurtiandBannibreeds), horses (KathiawadiandMarwadibreeds),camel (Kachchhibreeds), sheep (PatanwadiandMarwadi) and goats (Surti,Mehsani,KachchhiandZalawadibreeds) with reported total estimated milk ...
Though they are smaller breeds, they still give around a gallon each milking session. They do require room to forage and graze but are obviously much more manageable than a full-sized cow. However, this still means that each cow would need a half-acre to an acre to be fully sustained on...
Increasing output has been the dominant theme in dairy cattle improvement for decades. Average cow milk production has been doubled and redoubled in the past century by dairy farmers applying the new information on genetics, nutrition and management. How
Beta-carotene is present in cow milk and at lower levels in buffalo (Ullah et al., 2017). In this study, an initial breed and species comparison demonstrated differences in BC level in milk among cattle and buffalo but shows that BC can be detected also in buffalo breeds, with Jafarabadi...
However we should keep in mind that cross-breeding is not per se a genetic improvement and that genetic selection is still strongly recommended within the breeds used. Recently reports have been published showing that some sires perform better in timed AI scenarios than others [77]. The latter ...
Over the last few years, continuous development of high-throughput sequencing platforms and sequence analysis tools has facilitated reliable identification and characterization of genetic variants in many cattle breeds. Deep sequencing of entire genomes within a cattle breed that has not been thoroughly in...