Developing a bovine ketosis risk indicator using milk spectral analysis and animal phenotype data

该项目致力于扩大使用易于获得的牛奶光谱结果，以提供单个奶牛水平上的酮病可能性的风险状态。通过减少昂贵的体重变化，改善健康和生育能力，并确保更有针对性地使用农场的能源资源，这一新工具具有巨大的潜力来提高GB牛奶生产的效率。能够使用受控系统(如牛奶记录)定期提供无麻烦、低成本和非侵入性的酮病指示器，将为核磁共振记录的5,000个奶牛群提供更多参与酮病监测的机会。目前，制定有意义的措施所需的时间限制和数据的复杂性是参与的障碍。核磁共振、SRUC和EBVC试图通过这个项目克服这些问题。

This project sets out to expand the use of easily attainable milk spectral results to provide a risk status of ketosis likelihood at an individual cow level. There is significant potential for this new tool to increase the efficiency of GB milk production by reducing costly body weight changes, improving health and fertility, and ensuring more targeted use of energy resources on farm.Being able to provide a ketosis indicator that's hassle free, low-cost and non-invasive on a regular basis using a controlled system such as milk recording, will offer greater opportunities for the 5,000 dairy herds recorded by NMR to partake in ketosis monitoring. Currently, time constraints and the complexity of data required to generate meaningful measures are a barrier for participation. NMR, along with SRUC and EBVC seek to overcome these via this project.