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Animals, Volume 15, Issue 24

2025 December-2 - 151 articles

Cover Story: Despite decades of research, managing heat load in feedlot settings remains challenging. In the context of a changing climate, the severity and intensity of summers are projected to increase, as the impact of heat load on feedlots, will remain challenging. This means that commercial industries need numerous options to mitigate the adverse effects of heat load conditions to support cattle welfare whilst minimising the impacts to production. Nutritional management strategies specifically targeted for supporting feedlot cattle during heat load may present a beneficial and cost-effective strategy to support cattle health and wellbeing during heat load conditions. In this study, three feeding strategies were implemented during a simulated heat wave event to investigate the timing of roughage addition on the rumen environment. View this paper
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Articles (151)

  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
12 Pages

Cultivated Gut Microbiota of Roe Deer and Red Deer in Central Poland Forest

  • Wojciech Ospałek,
  • Łukasz Wlazło,
  • Katarzyna Tajchman,
  • Małgorzata Targońska-Karasek and
  • Bożena Nowakowicz-Dębek

18 December 2025

The aim of this study was to compare, using culture methods, the microflora of the small and large intestines, distinguishing pathogenic bacteria, in free-living ruminants: roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus). Intestinal samp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
336 Views
18 Pages

Embryonic Development and Growth Performance of the Tomato Hind Grouper (Cephalopholis sonnerati): A New Cultivated Aquaculture Species

  • Yimeng Wang,
  • Tangtang Ding,
  • Yongsheng Tian,
  • Dongqing Bai,
  • Xinlu Jiao,
  • Shihao Wang,
  • Chunbai Zhang,
  • Fengfan Yang,
  • Linna Wang and
  • Yang Liu
  • + 3 authors

18 December 2025

The tomato hind grouper (Cephalopholis sonnerati) is an emerging aquaculture species, with significant commercial value and promising farming potential. To advance the theoretical framework for artificial breeding, this study systematically investiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
17 Pages

Transposable Elements Regulate Tail Development and Fat Deposition in Sheep Fetuses

  • Qianqian Liang,
  • Haichen Yang,
  • Huajiao Dong,
  • Göran Andersson,
  • Erik Bongcam-Rudloff,
  • Pengcheng Wan,
  • Beibit Turganbekovich Kulatayev,
  • Mahaba Rouzi,
  • Min Yang and
  • Jilong Han

18 December 2025

Transposable elements (TEs) play important roles in physiological processes, but their function in tail development remains poorly characterized. To explore their potential regulatory roles, we systematically analyzed the expression patterns of TEs d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
547 Views
19 Pages

The Role of Swine Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolites in Maintaining Intestinal Barrier Integrity and Mitigating Stress via the Gut–Brain Axis

  • Katarzyna Woś,
  • Karol Pachciński,
  • Marianna Wacko,
  • Oliwia Koszła,
  • Przemysław Sołek and
  • Anna Czech

18 December 2025

The gut-brain axis is a complex communication network linking the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system, in which the gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in regulating intestinal homeostasis, immune responses and neuroendocrine functi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
455 Views
19 Pages

Research Progress on Genetic Factors of Poultry Egg Quality: A Review

  • Liu Yang,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Yadi Jing,
  • Meixia Zhang,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Shuer Zhang,
  • Chao Qi,
  • Weiqing Ma,
  • Muhammad Zahoor Khan and
  • Mingxia Zhu

18 December 2025

Egg quality is a critical economic trait in poultry production, influencing consumer preference and production efficiency. The genetic and epigenetic regulation of egg quality involves complex biological pathways across various traits such as shell q...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
280 Views
17 Pages

Gut Morphological Structure-Microbial Characteristics in Elaphodus cephalophus: A Case Report

  • Siying Chen,
  • Hao Dai,
  • Zhiyu Feng,
  • Haiyang Zhu,
  • Jiahua Zhang,
  • Tingting Fang,
  • Shibin Yuan and
  • Bangyuan Wu

18 December 2025

The ruminant gastrointestinal tract hosts a complex microbial ecosystem vital for nutrient absorption, with each segment displaying distinct morphological and microbial compositional features compared to monogastric animals. While most studies rely o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
21 Pages

Pig Health Assessment Framework Based on Behavioural Analysis

  • Shuqin Tu,
  • Boyang Tan,
  • Aqing Yang,
  • Hairan Yang,
  • Yizhi Luo,
  • Yuan Fang and
  • Zicong Xu

18 December 2025

The long-term behavioural analysis and health assessment of Pigs are essential for intelligent management in modern pig farming. Manual tracking and behaviour analysis for constructing health assessment systems are often subjective, inconsistent, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
11 Pages

Comparative Evaluation of a Domestic Automatic Milking System and a Commercial System: Effects of Parity on Milk Performance and System Capacity

  • Dong-Hyun Lim,
  • Jun Sik Eom,
  • Seong Min Park,
  • Jihoo Park,
  • Dong Hyeon Kim,
  • Taejeong Choi,
  • Young Kyung Choi,
  • Jongseon Kim and
  • Younghoon Kim

18 December 2025

This study evaluated milking characteristics and milk productivity of a domestically developed automatic milking system (AMS-K) and compared its performance with a commercially imported AMS (AMS-C), under identical farm management conditions. Milking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
16 Pages

Relationship Between Age at First Calving and 305-Day Milk Yield in Hungarian Holstein-Friesian Cows: Trends and Genetic Parameters

  • Szabolcs Albin Bene,
  • Zsolt Jenő Kőrösi,
  • László Bognár,
  • József Péter Polgár and
  • Ferenc Szabó

18 December 2025

Age at first calving (AFC) and 305-day milk yield in the first lactation (MY) data of 18,545 Holstein-Friesian cows born between 2008 and 2018 in six herds were evaluated. The effects of some genetic and environmental factors, population genetic para...

  • Article
  • Open Access
506 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2025

Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels play critical roles in animals in sensing diverse stimuli, especially environmental temperature. The teleost fish Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cannot tolerate cold temperatures. In this study, we id...

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