Resilient cattle

Resilient cattle

Resilient cattle Dairy UP’s P6a Project is exploring the diversity in dairy cattle responses to heat events with the view to providing data to refine the model used to calculate DataGene’s Heat Tolerance Australian Breeding Value (ABV). Under the supervision of Dr...
P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance)

P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance)

P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance) Dairy UP’s PhD student, Alice Shirley recently had a review published in the Animal Journal. She examined the historical and contemporary use of the terms ‘resistance’, ‘tolerance’; ‘resilience’, and ‘susceptibility’, and proposed...
Data drives future dairy management

Data drives future dairy management

Data drives future dairy management Using rumination data to more accurately wean calves to promote better health and production potential is just one of the applications of new data technologies being investigated by Assoc Prof Cameron Clark and his Dairy UP...