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

该项目旨在扩大易于获得的牛奶光谱结果的使用范围，以提供单个奶牛酮症可能性的风险状态。这种新工具具有巨大的潜力，可以通过减少成本高昂的体重变化、改善健康和生育能力，以及确保农场更有针对性地利用能源，来提高国产牛的产奶效率。能够提供一个无麻烦、低成本和无创的酮症指标，定期使用一个控制系统，如牛奶记录，将为5000个由NMR记录的奶牛群提供更大的机会参与酮症监测。目前，产生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。NMR以及SRUC和EBVC试图通过该项目克服这些问题。

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.