The demand for better reproductive performance of the dairy cows is necessary to minimize economic losses direct by improvably herd fertility or indirect by milk production. Abortion is one of the reasons that reflect ...

During years researchers from many countries studied heat stress. However even nowadays farmers face a big challenge to maintain milk yield in the hottest days of the year. Respiratory rate (RR) and rectal temperature (RT) ...

Among the numerous problems that occur in dairy cattle hatcheries are highlighted the pedal diseases which can cause significant economic losses. The aim of this work is to describe the most relevant pedal diseases from ...

Requeijão processed cheese is a product obtained from melting the curd, which can be obtained by acid or enzymatic coagulation of milk, optionally added with cream and/or butter and/or anhydrous milk fat or butter oil ...

The microbiota of the large intestine is thought to account for 95% of the total cells in the human body, to have a population of approximately 1011-1012 CFU/g of intestinal content, and it represents approximately 1012 ...

Caseins are a family of milk proteins that exist in several molecular forms and are the main proteins present in the bovine milk. Genetic variants of these proteins have been associated with the quality and quantity of ...

Background: Mitigating the effects of global warming has become the main challenge for humanity in recent decades. Livestock farming contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with an important output of methane from enteric ...