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by Heinz Meissner

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Title Date Discipline Extract
Early pair housing increases solid feed intake and weight gains in dairy calves.

Discipline: calf raising; Key words: weaning, animal welfare,

GRAZING PATTERN OF DAIRY COWS THAT WERE SELECTED FOR DIVERGENT RESIDUAL FEED INTAKE AS CALVES

Discipline: grazing/pastures; Key words: dairy cow,

THE EFFECT OF CLOVE AND CINNAMON ON REDUCTION OF STAPH AUREUS BIOFILM FORMATION

Discipline: contamination; Key words: mastitis, antibiofilm Staphylococcus aureus,

BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT BY A MASTITIS-ASSOCIATED MICRO-ALGAE AND FOOD PATHOGEN IN THE PARLOUR AND MILKING EQUIPMENT

Discipline: contamination; Key words: subclinical mastitis, biofilm-producing isolate, sanitizer, Prototheca zopfii, raw milk, milking equipment, Listeria monocytogenes.
THE INFLUENCE OF COW DIETARY COMPOSITION ON HEAT STABILITY OF MILK

Discipline: nutrition/feeding; Key words: supplementation, nitrogen , phosphorus , milk heat stability, DCAD, ionic calcium. 
Low body condition predisposes cattle to lameness: An 8-year study of one dairy herd.

Discipline: animal welfare/ethics; Key words: lameness, body condition score,

FEED CONVERSION EFFICIENCY IN DAIRY COWS: REPEATABILITY, VARIATION IN DIGESTION AND METABOLISM OF ENERGY AND NITROGEN, AND RUMINAL METHANOGENS.

Discipline: genetic variation; Key words: feed efficiency, energy metabolism,

ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE, SURVIVAL, SOMATIC CELL SCORE BETWEEN POSTPARTUM HOLSTEIN AND NORWEGIAN RED X HOLSTEIN FIRST-CALF HEIFERS.

Discipline: mastitis; Key words: crossbreeding, immune response, phenotypic correlations, somatic cell score, survival.

Feeding, production, and efficiency of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and mixed-breed lactating dairy cows in commercial Danish herds

Discipline: lactation; Key words: Jersey, Holstein,

EFFECT OF ROUTINE CLAW TRIMMING ON CLAW TEMPERATURE IN DAIRY COWS MEASURED BY INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY

Discipline: animal welfare/ethics; Key words:infrared thermography,