The challenge of managing and breeding dairy cows is permanently adapting to changing
production circumstances under socio-economic constraints. If managing and breeding …

The composition of produced milk has great value for the dairy farmer. It determines the
economic value of the milk and provides valuable information about the metabolism of the …

This review article addresses some major developments in herd health programmes for
dairy farms over the last decades. It focuses particularly on herd health and production …

The bovine teat canal is highly specialized in its unique function of preventing both leakage
of milk and entry of bacteria and thereby plays a major role in the defence of the udder …

Herd Health and Production Management in Dairy Practice , 1996 Veterinary Practitioner's
and Pet Lover's Hand Book for Dogs and Page 1 Herd Health and Production Management …

Recovery time of teat tissue after milking was determined by ultrasonographic scanning.
Teat-canal length, teat-end width, teat-wall thickness, and teat-cistern width of 18 cows …

Abstract Eight Danish Holstein cows were milked with a 1-mm thick specially designed soft
liner on their right rear teat and a standard liner mounted under extra high tension on their …

Aims: To determine the effectiveness of premilking teat‐cleaning regimes in reducing the
teat microbial load and effect on milk quality. Methods and Results: The effectiveness of …

Spectra data from two instruments (UV–Vis/NIR and FT-NIR) consisting of three and one
detectors, respectively, were employed in order to discriminate the geographical origin of …

Two types of artificial neural networks, multilayer perceptron (MLP) and self-organizing
feature map (SOM) were used to detect mastitis by automatic milking systems (AMS) using a …