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August 2024
The time around calving: The most important 100 days!
The time around calving marks an important period in the life of a cow and remains a big challenge on dairy farms. The last 40 days before and the first...
June 2023
Heat Stress: The Modern Dairy Cow is less Heat Tolerant Than in the Past
Every summer, heat stress leads to lost milk production and supressed fertility rates in the modern dairy cow. Selection for more heat tolerant animals, incorporating the slick gene, providing housing...
June 2022
Health after calving is determined in the time period before calving!
It is the typical diseases like hypocalcemia (milk fever), ketosis, mastitis and metritis that hang like threatening storm clouds over the post-calving phase. And, in addition to the clinically obvious,...