Session 54. Cattle Production Free Communications

Date: 27 August ‘09; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Klopcic (SLO)

 

Theatre Session 54

• Investigations on fat protein ratio of milk and daily energy balance in Holstein Friesians
  Buttchereit, N., Stamer, E., Junge, W. and Thaller, G.

• The effects of malate supplementation on productive, metabolic and acid-base balance parameters in calves fed a corn-based high-grain diet
  Pereira, V., Castillo, C., Hernández, J., Vázquez, P., Vilariño, O., Méndez, J. and Benedito, J.L.

• Milk urea content as an estimator of nutritive balance on grazing or silage conditions
  Roca Fernández, A.I., González Rodríguez, A. and Vázquez Yáñez, O.P.

• Limits to prediction of energy balance from milk composition measures at individual cow Level
  Løvendahl, P., Ridder, C. and Friggens, N.C.

• Predicting bovine milk fat composition of winter and summer milk using infrared spectroscopy
  Rutten, M.J.M., Bovenhuis, H., Hettinga, K.A., Van Valenberg, H.J.F. and Van Arendonk, J.A.M.

• Adding value to test-day data by using modified best prediction method
  Gillon, A., Abras, S., Mayeres, P., Bertozzi, C. and Gengler, N.

• Using Fuzzy-Logic to model airborne spread of foot and mouth disease
  Traulsen, I. and Krieter, J.

• A survey on the selenium status in cattle herds in Wallonia
  Robaye, V., Dotreppe, O., Hornick, J.L., Istasse, L., Dufrasne, I. and Knapp, E.

• Serum metabolite and enzyme activities as biomarkers of high-grain diet consumption in finishing bull calves
  Castillo, C., Hernandez, J., Pereira, V., Mendez, J., Vazquez, P., Miranda, M. and Benedito, J.L.

• Use of dairy herd test-day effects stemming from genetic evaluations for herd management purposes
  Leclerc, H. and Ducrocq, V.

• Effects of suckling restriction and parity on metabolic and reproductive function of autumn-calving beef cows
  Álvarez-Rodríguez, J., Palacio, J. and Sanz, A.