Source: Alta Genetics, Chrissy Meyer
Think about the healthiest cows in your herd. What defines them as your healthiest?
Is it their older age? Is it the fact they’ve never had mastitis? Or are they the ones that leave the fresh...
Source: Dairy Research and Extension Consortium of Alberta, Shadi Nayeri and Dr. Paul Stothard, University of Alberta
Why is this important?
Milk production and fertility are two important traits that affect overall efficiency and profitability in the dairy cattle industry. Accurate genomic selection...
Source: Lactanet Canada
Each year, based on official animal registration and pedigree information within its database, Lactanet Canada computes current statistics related to the level of inbreeding within the Canadian cow population of each dairy breed. In this way, the...
Source: US National Library of Medicine
Abstract
Non-aureus staphylococci (NAS), a heterogeneous group of a large number of species and subspecies, are the most frequently isolated pathogens from intramammary infections in dairy cattle. Phylogenetic relationships among bovine NAS species are controversial...
Source: Canadian Dairy Network
Economics drives profitability! In the dairy industry, there have been various factors in recent years that have affected the economics of genetic selection and herd management decisions. One of the significant outcomes has been a growing...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
A century of improvement
Canadian dairy cattle genetics are among the best in the world. So it's not surprising that producers in many countries depend on Canadian genetics to provide consistent, high-quality results in their breeding...
Source: US National Library of Medicine
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Natural antibodies (NAb) are an important component of the innate immune system, and fight infections as a part of the first line defence. NAb are poly-reactive and can respond non-specifically to antigens. Therefore, NAb...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
OBJECTIVE:
The goal of the activity was establishing a database of cows genotyped with high quality records for fertility, survival, health, novel traits and other key traits, and these have been imputed to the entire sequence...
Source: Canadian Dairy Network
It has been said by many researchers around the world that "Phenotype is King!" in this era of genomics. What does this really mean? In Canada, there has been a recent surge of discussion on this...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science, L. Ma1,†, J.B. Cole2 Y. Da3 P.M. VanRaden2
ABSTRACT
Before fertility traits were incorporated into selection, dairy cattle breeding primarily focused on production traits, which resulted in an unfavorable decline in the reproductive performance of dairy cattle. This reduced fertility...
