Choline surprising in cow health

Julie Belschner
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022

Dairy cow closeup — Researchers including several graduate students spend time at a University of Wisconsin dairy-research farm looking at nutrients and at ways to modulate nutrient pathways to be more efficient. One possibility they look at is supplementing feed with choline.
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Julie Belschner

In spite of the COVID shutdown the University of Wisconsin in 2020-2021 performed one of its biggest studies ever done with dairy cows. The focus was on the little-understood effects of choline on transition cows.

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