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  2. Dairy cattle - Wikipedia

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    Cows are at their most fertile between 60 and 80 days after calving. Cows remaining "open" (not with calf) after this period become increasingly difficult to breed, which may be due to poor health. Failure to expel the afterbirth from a previous pregnancy, luteal cysts, or metritis, an infection of the uterus, are common causes of infertility

  3. Dry cow - Wikipedia

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    Close-up cows may also require these lower potassium levels to prevent milk fever. [12] It is also important for both dry cows to obtain enough protein within their diet for optimal health, milk production and reproduction. Research shows that milk production may be negatively impacted if cows do not acquire enough protein during their dry ...

  4. Why can't we just quit cows? - AOL

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    Pregnant, lactating, and elderly women, for example, are susceptible to anemia and low bone density, mainly due to inadequate iron and calcium intake — nutrients readily available in red meat ...

  5. Bovine somatotropin - Wikipedia

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    By using cows that produce offspring within a one to two-week period, synchronized breeding allows dairy farmers to artificially inseminate cows for maximum pregnancy rates with minimal effort. [29] BST is a placental lactogen (PL) hormone and falls under the class of growth hormone, or somatotropin.

  6. Placentophagy - Wikipedia

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    The attraction was not demonstrated towards the liver. This infers that there is a tie between elements prompting both delivery and placentophagy in pregnant maternal rabbits. [6] In some instances placentophagia is tied to cannibalism in rabbits. As the mother engages in the act of consuming the placenta, they accidentally ingest the neonate ...

  7. Milk fever - Wikipedia

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    Typical milk fever posture; cow in sternal recumbency with its head tucked into its flank. Milk fever, postparturient hypocalcemia, or parturient paresis is a disease, primarily in dairy cattle [1] but also seen in beef cattle and non-bovine domesticated animals, [2] characterized by reduced blood calcium levels (hypocalcemia).

  8. Farmers really do feed their cows Skittles -- here's why - AOL

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    Here's what candy debris looks like before it gets mixed in with feed. Source: Paul Octavious "At first I was offended by the thought," of cows eating candy, Janeen Hall Cole, a dairy farmer at ...

  9. Non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals - Wikipedia

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    Animals establish security of food, shelter, social contact, and mating because proximate mechanism, if they do not seek these necessities they will not survive. [12] All vertebrates share similarities in body structure; they all have a skeleton, a nervous system, a circulatory system, a digestive system and excretory system.