Official veterinary activity began in 1720, the earliest date in Finnish history of the record of Government action to control livestock diseases. Regulations were enacted and more were added in 1745, 1746, 1749 and 1750. These remained in force until 1864. All this work, however, was handled by...

ZWICK.-BORNA DISEASE. A cinematograph film of Borna disease was shown and it was stated that this virus disease is transmissible to the rabbit, guineapig, rat, fowl, sheep, bovine and horse. The virus is nearly related to that of malignant bovine catarrh and it is excreted in the nasal secretion,...

Agricultural industrialisation and globalisation have steadily increased the transportation of food across the world. In efforts to promote sustainability and self-sufficiency, organic milk producers in Sweden are required to produce a higher level of cattle feed on-farm in the hope that increased...

Background: Genomic prediction faces two main statistical problems: multicollinearity and n « p (many fewer observations than predictor variables). Principal component (PC) analysis is a multivariate statistical method that is often used to address these problems. The objective of this study was to ...

In a pilot study in Sweden, a questionnaire with 22 questions on oestrus detection was used to investigate 197 herds served by an AI centre; herds with known high and low detection rates were included. One oestrus detection inspection was videotaped in 13 herds in each category; the overall...

The decision to hold an International Conference for the study of epizootic diseases, to sit in Paris, was made on thé initiative of the French Minister of Agriculture (M. RICARD) in October 1920. Forty-three States responded to the invitation, including Germany, United States of America,...

Milk pH is increased in lactating dairy cattle with subclinical mastitis (SCM) and intramammary infection (IMI). We hypothesized that milk pH testing provides an accurate, low-cost, and practical on-farm method for diagnosing SCM and IMI. The main objective was to evaluate the clinical utility of...

Three random regression models were developed for routine genetic evaluation of Danish, Finnish, and Swedish dairy cattle. Data included over 169 million test-day records with milk, protein, and fat yield observations from over 8.7 million dairy cows of all breeds. Variance component analyses...

Alvars are habitats characterized by thin soils on limestone bedrock. The largest alvar area in the world is the Stora Alvaret, O land (25,500 hectares), which is characterized by the presence of several plant communities of high conservation value. Emigration at the end of the nineteenth century...