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Tetsuya Endo, Osamu Kimura, Masaru Terasaki, Yoshihisa Kato, Yukiko Fujii and Koichi Haraguchi
The changes in the stable isotope ratios of carbon (d13C), nitrogen (d15N), oxygen (d18O), and mercury (Hg) concentrations in muscle and liver tissues during and after lactation were studied in killer whales stranded along the coast of Hokkaido, in the n...
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Fredrik Regler and Heinz Bernhardt
This study addresses the challenge of subjective remounting decisions in calf and heifer rearing, typically driven by the animal caretaker?s feelings and experience, lacking a robust data foundation. Key factors such as developmental delays, diseases, or...
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Pawel Solarczyk, Tomasz Sakowski, Marcin Golebiewski, Jan Slósarz, Grzegorz Grodkowski, Kinga Grodkowska, Luisa Biondi, Massimiliano Lanza, Antonio Natalello and Kamila Puppel
This study assessed the impact of different calf rearing systems on calf health, behavior, meat quality, and oxidative stability. The study involved two groups of bull calves: conventionally penned calves (control, fed with use of automatic feeders) and ...
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Addisu H. Addis, Hugh T. Blair, Paul R. Kenyon, Stephen T. Morris, Nicola M. Schreurs and Dorian J. Garrick
Approximately 42% of the total calves born in New Zealand?s dairy industry are either euthanized on farms or commercially slaughtered as so-called bobby calves within 2 weeks of age. These practices have perceived ethical issues and are considered a wast...
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Daniel Rodriguez-Cordero, Octavio Carrillo-Muro, Pedro Hernandez-Briano, Alejandro Rivera-Villegas and Alfredo Estrada-Angulo
This study utilized fifty bull calves of the Continental × British crossbreed, with an average body weight of 147.0 ± 1.67 kg (BW), in a completely randomized design. The objective was to examine the impact of varying levels and duration of calcium propi...
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Luis Henrique Curcino Batista, Ivanna Morais Oliveira, Laura Franco Prados, Laylles Costa Araújo, Igor Machado Ferreira, Mateus José Inácio de Abreu, Saulo Teixeira Rodrigues de Almeida, César Aparecido de Araújo Borges, Gustavo Rezende Siqueira and Flávio Dutra de Resende
The objective of this study was to evaluate four different feeding strategies using an immunomodulatory feed additive for newly weaned Nellore cattle, before and after road transport, on their physiological parameters and performances during the growing ...
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Csilla Tóthová, Róbert Link, Veronika Glembová and Oskar Nagy
The objective of this study was to compare the electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in newborn calves, lambs, goat kids and piglets in precolostral blood samples. Blood samples were collected within 30 min of birth, prior to ingestion of first colos...
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Alan F. Smeaton and Feiyan Hu
Periodic phenomena are oscillating signals found in many naturally occurring time series. A periodogram can be used to measure the intensities of oscillations at different frequencies over an entire time series, but sometimes, we are interested in measur...
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Piotr Golinski, Patrycja Sobolewska, Barbara Stefanska and Barbara Golinska
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source. However, the disadvantages of convent...
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Agnieszka Wawrzyniak, Andrzej Przybylak, Piotr Boniecki, Agnieszka Sujak and Maciej Zaborowicz
In the presented study, data regarding the size and structure of cattle herds in voivodeships in Poland in 2019 were analysed and modelled using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The neural modelling approach was employed to identify the relationship be...
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