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Ketosis research shows key findings

Heather White
Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017

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PhD student Rafael Caputo Oliveira takes the temperature of a cow as part of a fresh-cow examination.

As part of her masters research, Frankie Tiberio conducts a trial at the University of Wisconsin-Arlington Agricultural Research Farm to determine the relationship between body-condition score and onset of ketosis, and if residual feed intake is correlated with an incidence of ketosis.

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Heather White is an assistant professor of nutritional physiology in the Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Contact heather.white@wisc.edu or 608-263-7786 for more information. Co-authors are Kent Weigel, professor and chair in the Department of Dairy Science at UW-Madison and Frankie Rathbun, nutritionist with VitaPlus Corp. and former student of White. Other collaborators include Ryan Pralle, Sandra Bertics, Lou Armentano, Kwanghyeon Cho and ChangHee Do.