Prepartum and postpartum nutritional management to optimize fertility in high-yielding dairy cows in confined TMR systems
The 6 to 8-week period centered on parturition, known as the transition or periparturient period, is critical to welfare and profitability of individual cows.Fertility of high-producing cows is compromised by difficult transitions.Deficiencies in either nutritional or non-nutritional management increase risk for periparturient metabolic disorders a