The Research Column | Milk South Africa

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by Heinz Meissner

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Title	Date	Discipline	Extract	Keywords
Evaluating the effectiveness of mastitis vaccines and the current status of vaccine development			Discipline: mastitis; Key words: vaccines, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus uberis, coliforms, biofilms
VARIATION IN THE INTER-SERVICE INTERVALS OF DAIRY COWS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM			Discipline: reproduction; Keywords: inter-service interval, inter-ovulatory interval, o
THE INFLUENCE OF COW DIETARY COMPOSITION ON HEAT STABILITY OF MILK			Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: supplementation, nitrogen , phosphorus , milk heat stability, DCAD, ionic calcium.
Factors associated with the financial performance of spring-calving, pasture-based dairy farms			Discipline: economics; Key words: dairy, grassland,
FAT SUPPLEMENTATION AS AFFECTED BY FORAGE FIBRE IN DIETS OF HIGH-PRODUCING COWS			Discipline: feed additives; Key words: dietary forage neutral detergent fiber, early lactation,
Dairy farms testing positive for Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis have poorer hygiene practices and are less cautious when purchasing cattle than test-negative herds.			Discipline: disease; Key words: paratuberculosis,
Effects of automatic cluster removal and feeding during milking on milking efficiency, milk yield and milk fat quality.			Discipline: milking; Key words: cluster take-off level, parlour feeding, milking interval, residual milk, milking efficiency.
THE EFFECT OF COLOSTRUM STORED DIFFERENTLY ON PASSIVE IMMUNITY TRANSFER IN CALVES			Discipline: calf rearing; Key words: colostrum storage, colostrum feeding, calf health, immunoglobulin G.
Safety of milk-derived bioactive peptides.			Discipline: dairy and health; Key words: bioactive peptides, cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, immunomodulatory function, side effects.
Ratio of dietary rumen degradable protein to rumen undegradable protein affects nitrogen partitioning but does not affect the bovine milk proteome produced by mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows.			Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: milk protein, proteomics, bioactive, low abundance protein.