Free communications animal management and health (Management and health of ruminants)

Date: 06 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Metz (NL)

Theatre

• Performance and feeding behaviour of dairy cows in an automatic milking systems with controlled cow traffic (Melin, M., K. Svennersten-Sjaunja and H. Wiktorsson)
• Effect of milking frequency on lactation persistency in an automated milking system (Svennersten-Sjaunja, K. and G. Pettersson)
• Effect of mastitis on culling in Swedish dairy cattle (Schneider, M. del P., E. Strandberg and A. Roth)
• Dairy cow health and the effects of genetic merit for milk production, management and interactions between these: udder health parameters (Ouweltjes, W., B. Beerda, J.J. Windig, M.P.L. Calus and R.F. Veerkamp)
• Osteochondrosis in beef sires in Sweden (Persson, Y. and S. Ekman)
• On the development of asymmetry between lateral and medial rear claws in dairy cows (Telezhenko, E., C. Bergsten, M. Magnusson, M. Ventorp, J. Hultgren and C. Nilsson)
• Evaluation of AFB1/AFM1 carry-over in lactating goats exposed to different levels of AFB1 contamination (Ronchi, B., P. Danieli, A. Vitali, A. Sabatini, U. Bernabucci and A. Nardone)
• The ACTH challenge test to evaluate the individual welfare condition (Bertoni, G., E. Trevisi, R. Lombardelli and L. Calamari)
• Effect of transport for up to 24 hours followed by twenty-four hours recovery on liveweight, physiological and haematological responses of bulls (Earley, B., D.J. Prendiville and E.G. O'Riordan)

Poster

• The effect of herbal medicine (RHAM)^® on animal dermatic and claw infection treatment (Ahadi, A.H., M.R. Sanjabi, M. Moeini and A. Ghahramani)

• Free cortisol in milk as an indicator of stress in dairy cows held in barns with automated milking and control gates (Melin, M., K. Svennersten-Sjaunja and H. Wiktorsson)

• Effect of milking frequency on milk quality (Svennersten-Sjaunja, K., L. Wiking, A. Edvardsson, A.K. Båvius and I. Andersson)

• The welfare of weanling bulls transported from Ireland to Italy (Earley, B., D.J. Prendiville and E.G. O'Riordan)

• Cattle metabolic diseases and changes in central nervous system (Pilmane, M., I. Zitare, A. Jemeljanovs and I.H. Konosonoka)

• Investigations on microbiological spectrum in subclinical and clinical mastitis of dairy cows in Latvia (Konosonoka, I.H., A. Jemeljanovs and I. Ciprovica)

• Comparative research on the impact of the maintenance system upon milk cows’ performance and health (Vidu, L., A. Udroiu, I. Raducuta, I. Calin and V. Bacila)

• Cubicles height over the floors in passages: implications for hygiene (Herlin, A.H., M. Magnusson, M. Ventorp and S. Lorentzon)

• The effect of short dry periods on health disorders in dairy cattle (Pezeshki, A., H.R. Rahmani, G.R. Ghorbani, M. Alikhani and M. Mohammadalipour)

• Longitudinal slope of the cubicle for the dairy cow (Herlin, A.H., M. Magnusson and C. Hagberg)

• Analysis of the factors affecting somatic cell count in milk (Kiiman, H., T. Kaart, M. Henno and O. Saveli)

• Characteristics for mastitis incidence in dairy herds in the Czech Republic (Stipková, M., M. Wolfová and J. Wolf)

• Milk let-down parameters’ association with udder health problem incidence: a case study (Livshin, N., E. Maltz, M. Tinsky and E. Aizinbud)

• Teat and teat-end type in three dairy cattle breeds in the Tropics (Riera, M., A. Cefis, O. Pedron and J.C. Alvarez)

• Comparing two concentrate allowances in an automatic milking system (Halachmi, I.)

• Analysis of the synchronisation of passages out to the pasture in an automatically milked herd with day and night access to the grazing area (Spörndly, E. and M. Bergman)

• Relationships between temperature, precipitation, and carcass weights of the red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) in North-Eastern Poland (Janiszewski, P. and T. Daszkiewicz)

• Identification of strains of mink Aleutian disease virus in Nova Scotia (Farid, A., B.F. Benkel, F.S.B. Kibenge and G.G. Finley)

• The influence of outdoor raising of pigs on their growth rate and behaviour (Juskiene, V. and R. Juska)

• Short and long slaughter transports increase mortality rates in pigs (Werner, C., K. Reiners and M. Wicke)

• Dust spatial distribution and seasonal concentration of windowless broiler building (Choi, H.C., K.Y. Yeon, J.I. Song, H.S. Kang, D.J. Kwon, Y.H. Yoo, C.B. Yang, S.S. Cheon and Y.K. Kim)

• Age-related differences of Ascaridia galli egg output and worm burden in chickens following a single dose infection (Gauly, M., T. Homann and G. Erhardt

• Comparison of two force molting methods on performance of laying hens in second phase of egg production (Hassanabadi, A. and H. Kermanshahi)

• The functional condition of the stomach in goats infected with the alimentary tract nematodes (Birgele, E., D. Keidane, A. Mugurevics and J. Jegorova)

• The functional condition of stomach and some indices of meat quality in bulls in their ontogenesis (Ilgaza, A., E. Birgele, A. Mugurevics, D. Keidane and J. Jegorova)