Autumn feeding changes can pressure rumen health on NZ dairy farms. Learn how fibre digestion, pasture shifts and live yeast support cow performance.
BRD is often framed as stress, viruses and bacteria. Managing inflammation tied to endotoxin helps explain why some cattle recover faster than others ...
Gut health has been a popular topic in recent years. You may have heard from researchers diving into what makes our guts “leaky,” or maybe you’ve come across the variety of resources designed to ...
The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Ruminants play an essential role in food production due to their ability to utilize forages through fermentation in the rumen. This ...
What is Milk Urea Nitrogen? Milk urea nitrogen (MUN), the concentration of urea in milk, is a tool to monitor the efficiency of crude protein utilization in dairy cows. In the rumen, microbes degrade ...
Hemoglobin helps carry oxygen from the lungs to body tissues and brings back carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs. Low hemoglobin levels can cause anemia, leading to tiredness, headache, and ...