The caloric needs of a recently calved cow (fresh cow) are so significant that most dairy cows do not initially eat enough to make up for the calories they are burning. This mismatch of burning more ...

“There is a difference in the digestibility of whole corn versus cracked corn,” he said. “Because the steer ration will have ...

Under normal conditions, swelling from gas formation causes the cow to belch and release the gas. Rumination Cows may spend 35 to 40 percent of each day ruminating (cud chewing). The amount of time ...

K-State Beef Cattle Institute nutritionist Phillip Lancaster shares the pros and cons of feeding cracked corn to steers and ...

Look for mucin casts, which are tissue fragments from the large intestine. These suggest inflammation or chronic acidosis. Healthy cows chew their cud as part of the rumination process that maintains ...

Ten years ago, Brent Moyer would never have imagined he’d be tracking the minutes a cow spends chewing her cud and using that data to make key herd-management decisions. But today, Moyer, manager of ...

Forages provide both structural and chemical neutral detergent fiber (NDF) in dairy cow diets. Structural NDF is important for cud chewing and good rumen health, while chemical NDF provides energy for ...