Nutritional strategies for healthy cows

A successful nutritional strategy for the transition period begins long before the transition period; it begins during late lactation. Managing the ration during late lactation and the dry period in an ?optimal way to avoid over-conditioning (high BCS) at calving is of utmost importance. In recent decades, advances in genetic selection have increased the production of milk solids in dairy cows. But this increased production seems to have come at the expense of fertility and longevity, which hav