Animal welfare can be negatively affected when dairy cattle experience heat stress.
Managing heat stress has become more of a challenge than ever before, due to the …

This Research Reflection short review presents an overview of the effects of heat stress on
dairy cattle udder health and discusses existing heat stress mitigation strategies for a better …

Environmental effects on pathogen abundance and access are precursors to mastitis.
Indeed, high heat and humidity, and unsanitary housing and equipment, are associated with …

Heat stress is increasingly affecting the production, health, and reproduction of dairy cows.
Previous studies used limited variables as predictors of physiological responses, and the …

This study aimed to predict the annual herd milk yield, lactation, and reproductive cycle
stages in a high-input dairy herd in a zone with prolonged thermal stress. Also, the impact of …

Mastitis is a prevalent and expensive disease in dairy herds worldwide. Blanket dry cow
therapy (BDCT), in which all quarters of all cows are infused with antimicrobials at the dry …

Calving patterns and milk production are seasonal throughout the United States; however,
the distribution of seasonality, and the extent to which this seasonality is due to direct effects …

Recently, interest in supplementing vitamin D (Vit D) to improve aspects of health, mainly in
human fertility, has emerged. Still, supplementation of Vit D above the minimum required …

Heat stress during lactation affects the physiological responses, hormonal release, health,
and productivity of dairy cows. However, the adverse effects of heat stress on milk synthesis …

The steady growth of inflammatory diseases of the udder in dairy cattle forces us to look for
the causes of this phenomenon in the context of growing chemical pollution of the …