High-throughput phenotyping technologies are growing in importance in livestock systems
due to their ability to generate real-time, non-invasive, and accurate animal-level …

Most dairy cows experience negative energy balance (NEB) in early lactation because
energy demand for milk synthesis is not met by energy intake. Excessive NEB may lead to …

The aim of this study was to characterize patterns of energy balance through lactation of
cows kept under constant feeding conditions. Danish Holstein, Danish Red, and Jersey …

Feed represents a large proportion of the variable costs in dairy production systems. The
omission of feed intake measures explicitly from national dairy cow breeding objectives is …

Interest is increasing in the feed intake complex of individual dairy cows, both for
management and animal breeding. However, energy intake data on an individual-cow basis …

Genetic (co) variances between body condition score (BCS), body weight (BW), milk yield,
and fertility were estimated using a random regression animal model extended to …

Milk composition varies with energy status and was proposed for measuring energy balance
on-farm, but the accuracy of prediction using monthly samples is not high. With automated …

The aim of this paper was to develop a framework describing the relationship between body
lipid reserves and the reproductive cycle. This is derived from consideration of the …

The objectives of this study were to estimate the genetic and environmental parameters
between body condition score (BCS) and 27 conformation and 3 production traits in Swiss …

Postpartum energy status is critically important to health and fertility, and it remains a major
task to find suitable indicator traits for energy balance. Therefore, genetic parameters for …