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Early Life Nutrition: Ensuring calf growth and future resilience

Early Life Nutrition: Ensuring calf growth and future resilience

Prioritizing high-quality nutrition in calves offers far-reaching benefits beyond their early growth. Through innovative research, the HoloRuminant project emphasises how early dietary interventions can...
Enhancing calf health and performance through epigenetics and methylation

Enhancing calf health and performance through epigenetics and methylation

Recent scientific findings advocate supplementing dairy cows with rumen-protected choline to optimize fetal programming on a genetic level, resulting in enduring health and productivity...
Ensuring an optimal weaning transition: Activate gut immunity and positively influence rumen microbiota to benefit calf performance

Ensuring an optimal weaning transition: Activate gut immunity and positively influence rumen microbiota to...

The weaning transition is a major challenge in calf management. With a proper plan for nutrition (milk and solid feed), producers can help support...
Choline supplementation to transition cows: a healthier launch of her lactation

Choline supplementation to transition cows: A healthier launch of her lactation

Choline continues to be of great interest to researchers across many species including humans and obviously dairy cattle. Research in just the last few...
Effects of supplementation with ruminally protected choline on performance of cows

Effects of supplementation with ruminally-protected choline on performance of cows

“Choline is an essential nutrient that enables cows to utilize the fat (NEFA) mobilized from body stores. The production of NEFA is the cows’...
Tips for reducing stress when weaning calves

Tips for reducing stress when weaning calves

When you consider the long history of the beef sector, stress is a relatively new issue being examined and discussed by those in the...