Facilitating adaptive capacity in early lactation

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Name three strategies to facilitate adaptive capacity in cows

  1. Selection and breeding strategies
  2. Nutritional strategies
  3. Management strategies

What can you do with a selection and breeding strategy?

Select for feed intake and energie balance
Or health and fertility

What can you do with nutritional strategies in facilitating adaptive capacity?

  1. Increase energy intake
  2. Improve energy utilization
  3. Reduce (milk) energy output
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Which management strategies can you use to facilitate adaptive capacity in cows?

  • Reduce stress
  • Reduce dry period length

Which forms of stress can a cow experience?

  • Heat stress
  • Social stress
  • Ration transitions

How can you reduce heat stress?

  • Water availability
  • Ventilation
  • Feeding (timing --> Cool moments, grain to forage ratio --> higher energy intake same DMI)

What are the effects of continuous milking of the cow (no dry period)?

  • improves dry matter intake
  • improves energy balance
  • reduces health risks
  • reduces days to first ovulation

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