(Touchstone, 1974). Volumes, or rather weights, of milk from each cow and each producer are recorded because these are used to evaluate the performance of the cow and as a parameter for payment. The volume of milk produced by cows has no meaning for the consumer because of pooling and ...
Dairy industry numbers Household expenditure on dairy products Dairy products share sales in supermarkets Number of employees in the dairy industry Milk market Preferred type of milk in Spanish households Per capita skim milk consumption Spanish region with the highest cow milk production Ice...
“My biggest gripe is the cow is not the world’s biggest problem,” Airoso said. “If the cow is the main problem on this planet, then you’re kidding yourself. You have a cow that consumes a lot of byproducts, which used to end up burned or in a landfill. She uses that feed ...
1971. Canadian dairy cow disposals: I. Differences between breeds, lacta- tion numbers and seasons. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 51:75-83.Burnside, EB, Kowalchuk, WB, Lambroughton, DB and MacLeod, NM. 1971. Canadian dairy cow dispersals. 1. Differences between breeds, lactation numbers and ...
The cows were selected to represent various lactation numbers and days in milk. The general description of the herds is presented in Table 1. Dairy cows were kept in free stalls. During the study period, data with relevance to animal welfare were collected. The sensor data (accelerometers and...
respectively. The black squares represent HRs with the size being inversely proportional to the variance of the logeof HR and the vertical lines represent 95% CIs. The numbers above the vertical lines are point estimates for HRs and the numbers below the lines refer to the number of incident ...
As strain specific pathogenicity has been observed withS. uberis54, this indicates bacterial pathogenic factors are involved, not host-specific factors. Notably, the isolates from this study shared similar numbers of putative virulence factors as the publicly available bovine mastitis isolates, as well...
Tanzania is a low-income country of East Africa characterized by relatively low agricultural productivity and a national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions profile dominated by the land use sector. Land use change (LUC) is the largest contributor to national GHG emissions, representing 66.0% of its es...
then production systems will evolve toward the management of the individual animal. Currently, anear tagidentifies most animals, but the identification system is not electronic or national—the numbers have relevance to the producer only. Animals that move between farms often have their original tags ...
The two types of domesticated water buffaloes found in Asia, that is, the river and the swamp type, differ in their wallowing habits, chromosome numbers, and physical features (Table 1). The river buffalo makes up nearly 75% of the buffalo population in Asia. The dairy breeds of river buf...