The association of the herbaceous legume Arachis pintoi CIAT 17434with tropical grasses has a great potential to improve cattle production in grazing systems. This study was conducted to characterize the nutritional quality ...

Milk fever. A review. Milk fever is an imbalance in calcium metabolism affecting specially high producing dairy cows. lt is caused by a reduction in the capacity of hormonal receptors to activate the calcium homeostatic ...

Dietary Cation-Anion Balance in Dairy Cattle Nutrition. AReview. Dietary Cation-Anion Balance (DCAB) is a relativelynew concept in Dairy Cattle nutrition and feeding. it is definedas mEq (Na+K)-(Cl+S)/kg of DM. Metabolic ...

Fiber in Dairy Cattle Nutrition. A review Fiber or cell wall is essential in dairy cattle nutrition as well as in ruminants in general. This nutritional fraction consists of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, lignified ...

Energy nutrition of dairy cattle. A review. Energy is a subtle term and is defined as the capacity for doing a work. In dairy cattle nutrition, feeds have that capacity and the work is the maintenance of the cow, milk ...

Hypomagnesemia. A metabolic imbalance underestimated in dairy herds in Costa Rica. A review. Hypomagnesemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by a reduction in blood and cerebrospinal fluids magnesium levels, affecting ...

Estimated nutritive quality of forages in the San Carlos County, Costa Rica. II. Cell wall components. A total of one hundred and ninety two compound samples of Cynodon nlemfuensis, Setaria anceps, Brachiaria ruziziensis, ...

Estimated nutritive quality of forages in the San Carlos County. Costa Rica. III. Energy for milk production. A total of 192 hand plucked samples of Cynodon nlemfuensis, Setaria anceps var White, Setaria anceps var Purple, ...

Se evaluó el contenido macro y micromineral del pasto ryegrass en la zona alta de Cartago, Costa Rica. Los contenidos promedio de Ca (0,68%) y P (0,39%) mostraron una relación mayor a 1,6:1 en épocas semi-seca y transición, ...