The Research Column | Milk South Africa

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by Heinz Meissner

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Title	Date	Discipline	Extract	Keywords
A study on cow comfort and risk for lameness and mastitis in relation to different types of bedding materials			Discipline: cow comfort; Key words: bedding material, lying behavior,
Feeding, production, and efficiency of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and mixed-breed lactating dairy cows in commercial Danish herds			Discipline: lactation; Key words: Jersey, Holstein,
Early pair housing increases solid feed intake and weight gains in dairy calves.			Discipline: calf raising; Key words: weaning, animal welfare,
SPORES ISOLATED FROM MILK POWDER PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE THE SAME AS THOSE ISOLATED FROM RAW MILK			Discipline: contamination; Key words: spore populations,
Effect of concentrate feeding method on the performance of dairy cows in early to mid lactation			Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: concentrate feeding method,
Effect of maternal heat stress in late gestation on blood hormones and metabolites of newborn calves.			Discipline: calf raising; Key words: heat stress,
THE EFFECT OF DIETARY CRUDE PROTEIN LEVEL AND CLA SUPPLEMENTATION ON CHEESE COMPOSITION			Discipline: composition; Key words: conjugated linoleic acid, dietary protein, fatty acid, milk, cheese
Strategies to gain body condition score in pasture-based dairy cows during late lactation and the far-off non-lactating period and their interaction with close-up dry matter intake.			Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: transition cow, health, welfare, Hypocalcaemia.
Lactation performance of Holstein cows treated with 2 formulations of recombinant bovine somatotropin in a large commercial dairy herd in Brazil.			Discipline: hormone; Key words: somatotropin, lactation performance, lactation persistency, Boostin, Lactotropin.
The genetic and biological basis of feed efficiency in mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows.			Discipline: genetic evaluation; Key words: genome-wide association study, residual feed intake, feed efficiency.