Dairy cattle are susceptible to increased incidence and severity of both metabolic and
infectious diseases during the periparturient period. A major contributing factor to increased …

The physiological response to infections and injuries involves local inflammation and the
initiation of events leading to a systemic response, also called acute phase reaction (APR) …

Acute phase proteins (APPs) have been used as biomarkers of inflammation, infection and
trauma for decades in human medicine but have been relatively under-utilised in the context …

The large increase in milk yield and the structural changes in the dairy industry have caused
major changes in the housing, feeding and management of the dairy cow. However, while …

Lactation is a dynamic process that has evolved to produce a complex biological fluid that
provides nutritive and nonnutritive factors to the nursing offspring. It has long been assumed …

Incidence rates for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in dairy cattle have remained
essentially unchanged over the last 20 years. Dairy calves are more commonly affected than …

In the dairy cow, negative energy balance affects milk yield and composition as well as
animal health. Studying the effects of negative energy balance on dairy cow milk production …

Dairy cow nutritional programs are a major determinant of the profitability of dairy farms.
Despite this, the sustainability of the dairy enterprise is beyond just cow nutrition. For almost …

The periparturient period is marked by metabolic, hormonal, and immunological changes,
which have an effect on the incidence of infectious and metabolic diseases. In a previous …

The 6 to 8-week period centered on parturition, known as the transition or periparturient
period, is critical to welfare and profitability of individual cows. Fertility of high-producing …