Farm work is highly diverse and can be intense during growing seasons. It involves machinery and tools, close contact with animals and changing environmental conditions. Farmers face many dangers as part of their ...

The aim of the research was to determine the productivity and reproduction indices of the Polish Holstein-Friesian Black-and-White variety cows in three consecutive lactations. The research was carried out in the Experimental ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a progressive loss of contractility of the heart muscle as the disease progresses. It causes a decrease in the heart’s minute capacity, i.e. the volume of blood pumped by the heart into the ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of selected physiological factors (age, lactation stage and daily milk yield) on milking rate by Polish Holstein-Friesian Black-and-White cows. The duration of morning, ...

Badaniami objęto 264 krowy rasy holsztyńsko-fryzyjskiej, o wydajności wynoszącej ponad 10 000 kg mleka, które utrzymywane były w jednym z największych gospodarstw na terenie województwa wielkopolskiego – w Sano Agrar ...

Cattle of conserved breeds are more resistant, healthier, and more adaptable to unfavour- able environmental conditions, with less rigid feed requirements. In contrast, cattle of highly productive breeds are more sensitive ...

Domestic animal homelessness is a long-known and ever-present phenomenon in Poland. Left unattended, animals pose a threat to people, their farms, public order and epidemiological safety. “The problem” was attempted to ...

In the last few decades there has been an upward trend in consumption of edible snails of the species Helix aspersa in European countries. In the 1990s the first Helix aspersa aspersa snail farms in Poland appeared, and ...

In 2021, 12,088 accidents involving animals were reported to the Regional Branches and Local Units of KRUS in Poland: 10.2% more than in 2020. The most common causes of such acci- dents are poor housing conditions and a ...

The Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758) is a large butterfly of the Pieridae family. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to the Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In ...