Articles Tagged with ''fatty acid nutrition''

Roadmap to fatty acid balancing

June 30, 2020

Renee Smith

Fatty acids can be flat-out complicated. First off, they have too many names. Linoleic is 18:2 and is also omega-6. Three names for the same fatty acid – is that really necessary?

A current primer on fatty acid feeding

June 30, 2020

Alois F. Kertz

About 10 years ago, I was working in another country and asked a question of a nutritionist I had known for 10 years previously: “What fat supplementation are you providing?” I was surprised when she said after about five years’ experience with high palmitic fatty acid (HPFA) supplementation, they no longer used that supplement.

Fat feeding heat stress with lactating cows

May 22, 2020

Alois F. Kertz

Ruminants are particularly affected by heat stress for several reasons. First, the heat from rumen fermentation is a plus during colder weather because it operates as an “internal furnace” for ruminants.

Make better nutritional and management decisions by understanding milk fatty acids

May 6, 2020

Mike Brady, Chad Jenkins, and Josh Peters

Dairymen, nutritionists and processors all seem to be paying more attention to fat and protein these days, particularly due to their impact on the price of a hundredweight (cwt) of milk.

Fatty acid impacts on immune balance

April 18, 2019

Renee Smith

Fatty acids are one of the last major nutrient categories to be truly “balanced” in our dairy cow diets. Several factors have come together recently to make now the era of fatty acid balancing. First, producers are getting paid more per pound of milkfat as a percentage of their milk check.

Team up fatty acids for optimum production performance

September 30, 2016

T. L. Harris, James G. Linn, James R. Loften, and Matthew D. Sellers

Over the last few decades, numerous advances in the dairy industry have allowed lactating dairy cows to produce greater quantities of higher-quality milk than ever before.

Omega-3 fatty acid-rich flaxseed, fish oil may boost fertility

August 24, 2016

Divakar Ambrose

Can you believe up to 60 percent of embryos don’t “make it” in the lactating dairy cow? That’s right. In addition to poor estrus expression and low conception rate, embryonic loss is another significant contributor to poor reproductive efficiency, with combined pre- and post-fertilization losses exceeding 70 percent.

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