The biological cycles of milk production and reproduction determine dairying profitability
thus making management decisions dynamic and time-dependent. Diseases also negatively …

High producing dairy cows generally receive in the diet up to 5–6% of fat. This is a relatively
low amount of fat in the diet compared to diets in monogastrics; however, dietary fat is …

Dairy cattle experience health risks during the periparturient period. The continuous
overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during the transition from late gestation to …

We have seen remarkable advances in animal productivity in the last 75 years, with annual
milk yield per cow increasing over 4-fold and no evidence of nearing a plateau. Because of …

Fertility in dairy cows has declined over the past five decades as milk production per cow
has increased. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this including issues of …

The objective of this series of studies was to investigate the effects of inflammatory diseases
occurring before breeding on the developmental biology and reproductive responses in …

The objectives were to characterize the prevalence of periparturient diseases and their
effects on reproductive performance of dairy cows in seasonal grazing farms. A total of 957 …

Two retrospective studies examining data of 7,500 lactating cows from a single herd were
performed with the objective of evaluating the long-term effects of clinical disease during the …

Simple Summary Reproductive efficiency is critical for profitability of dairy operations. The
first part of this manuscript discusses the key physiology of dairy cows and how to practically …

Background Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for specific genes
involved in reproduction might improve reliability of genomic estimates for these low …