Strategies for keeping dairy cows and calves together – a cross-sectional survey study

Although it is still most common to rear dairy calves separately from adult cattle, the interest in prolonged contact between dairy calves and lactating cows during early life is increasing.
Improvement of Dairy Farms Management of Appenino Campano Area Producing Milk: “Nobilat”

The aims of the present study were: (i) to explore the microbial community of biofilms collected from 11 different Tinas of Hyblean area of Sicily and of milk samples both inoculated and incubated with biofilm; (ii) to identify the VOCs generated in the incubated milk samples; and (iii) to correlate the VOCs formation with the detection f LAB species.