NAIROBI: A significant number of farmers has incurred huge losses from treatments, loss of milk and even death of high yielding cows from milk fever and Ketosis. This has created fear of keeping high ...

UAlberta researcher Burim Ametaj's theory challenges 200 hundred years of science and his work may change the approach for treatment.

Cows that suffer from calcium deficiency are also more susceptible to other reproductive diseases and conditions like mastitis. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] I am a worried dairy farmer. Of my six dairy ...

When producers talk about hypocalcemia today, the focus has shifted to subclinical hypocalcemia. Unlike clinical milk fever, it’s a disease that doesn’t show any visible signs. “You can’t determine ...

Many years producers are calving during the early spring with cows grazing lush pastures. When cows that have just calved are grazing cool-season annual pastures producers often find mature cows that ...

The virus has spread rapidly in California, the nation’s largest producer of milk. Farmers are frustrated that their herds are getting infected despite various precautions. By Soumya Karlamangla ...

U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe. By Emily Anthes A form of avian ...