When the diet is not consistent, cattle can experience ruminal acidosis, which is when the pH of the rumen becomes low, said Jim MacDonald, UNL professor of animal science and principal ...

The transition period receives the attention of the entire dairy industry because of the dramatic and intense changes that cows undergo.

The seasonal variability of distillers grains, a byproduct of ethanol production, has been one drawback of using it in a cattle finishing ration. New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

Each year, the UK sheep industry lambs 15m breeding ewes in a huge variety of systems and locations. From sea level to hill ...

Lastly, it reduces the ruminal degradation of protein ... of feeding monensin to cattle include reduction in bloat (less methane production), less rumen acidosis, and fewer cases of acute respiratory ...

Yusuf et al. (8) revealed that phenol-rich plants could manipulate rumen metabolism by improving ruminal fluid populations of Ruminococcus albus, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Fibrobacter ...

2017b,2018). Furthermore, BCA could be a substitute for antibiotics, such as monensin, for reducing rumen acidosis (Harlow et al., 2017c,2021). Supplementing steers fed dried distillers’ grains (DDG) ...