Dairy Cattle Resources
Solving your challenges starts with understanding them. Review our research and resources to see how the industry’s leading professionals are working to solve the most significant threats to dairy health and productivity.
The Impact of Feeding OmniGen®️ in Dry Cows Heat Stressed with an Electric Blanket Model
This white paper summarizes heat stress research conducted at the University of Florida that both demonstrates that heat blankets can be used to induce heat stress conditions for research purposes and that managing heat stress in dry cows can help manage the effects of heat stress on dry period dry matter intake and milk yield in the next lactation.
Five Things You May Not Have Known About Mastitis
Experts Take a Closer Look at One of Dairy’s Most Profit-Draining Challenges.
A Common but Costly Disease
Mastitis Q&A with Dr. Rodrigo Souza, Senior Technical Services Manager, Phibro Animal Health Corporation.
Are Your Dairy Management Practices Putting Your Cows at Risk for Mastitis?
Dr. Rodrigo Souza outlines 10 ways to minimize mastitis risk in your dairy herd.
Heat Stress Reference Guide
This quick-reference guide includes a series of articles covering multiple studies and insights from recent years on the subject of heat stress and its effects on dairy herds.
Keys to Abating the Cumulative Effects of Heat Stress
Dr. Glenn Holub Shares how a Healthy Immune System is a Cow’s First Defense Against Heat Stress
Why High Heat and Humidity Mean Lower Production
GLENN HOLUB EXPLAINS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF HEAT STRESS
Are Your Dairy Cows Heat Stressed?
Dr. Glenn Holub Shares Heat Stress Indicators to Look for in Your Dairy Herd
A Commonsense Approach to Managing Heat Stress
Simple Measures Can Have a Big Effects on Cows Comfort and Production
Optimize Cow Comfort and Health to Help Decrease Mastitis Incidence
Dr. Rodrigo Souza Explores the Risks and Indications of Subclinical and Clinical Mastitis
“Nutritional Solutions to Help Support Healthy Dairy Cows” Brochure
More information about how the OmniGen family of nutritional products help you solve for your toughest challenges.
HBS Reference Guide
Valuable information on the subject of HBS, including latest studies, impact on operations, expert opinions, relationship between HBS and Aspergillus fumigatus, and benefits of immune support.
Inflammation: Risks and Rewards
Increase your understanding of the role inflammation plays in a healthy immune system and how a healthy immune system helps promote rapid resolutions of the inflammatory response.
Dairy Gains Insight from a Stress Assessment
Phibro Stress Assessment, a systematic and comprehensive evaluation that identifies the presence and level of stressors on a dairy. A total of 11 stressors are evaluated during the stress assessment.
Reproductive Performance and Transition to Fresh Cow Immunity
Michael Hodgman, DVM, explains why immunity is lowered during the transition period and shares how this might affect a cow’s reproductive rates and days open
Help Optimize Reproductive Performance and Reduce Days Open
Expert tips for managing the depth and duration of immunosuppression to help improve reproduction rates
The Link Between Immunosuppression and HBS
Where are the stressors affecting cows on your dairy?
Help Safeguard Dairy Cows from Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome
Q&A WITH JIM CHAPMAN, PH.D., SENIOR RESEARCH LEADER, PHIBRO ANIMAL HEALTH CORPORATION
Stop Heat Stress from Draining Your Profits (Q&A)
How Feeding OmniGen® Can Bolster Your Dairy Cattle’s Immune System to Better Defend Against Challenges.
Dairy’s Most Profit-Draining Challenges — Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome
Dairy health experts demystify a syndrome that can impact highly productive cows with little warning.
Support Your Herd’s Immunity with OmniGen®
Maintaining a healthy immune system is one of the dairy producer’s most economically rewarding management tools. Learn how to put your cows’ immune systems to work for you in this video.
Dairy’s Most Profit-Draining Challenges — Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome (Q&A)
Dairy technical expert Dr. Scott Bascom answers common questions about hemorrhagic bowel syndrome (HBS).
AF Prevalence Trends Triannual Report
– August 2022
A summary of Aspergillus fumigatus prevalence in feed samples from 2013 to 2022, with a special spotlight on the last 12 months.
Connecting Aspergillus fumigatus and Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome
An interview with HBS expert Dr. Jim Chapman, Ph.D., Senior Research Leader, Phibro Animal Health Corporation.
Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome: Are Your Highly Productive Cows at Risk?
HBS expert shares five tips to keep the deadly syndrome at bay.
Dairy’s Most Profit-Draining Challenges—Heat Stress
Dairy health experts discuss the potential long-term effects of heat stress.
HBS + AF Facts
While HBS is unpredictable and fatal, OmniGen nutritional specialty products offer immune support that can serve as an important line of defense.
Ingredients Selected by Efficacy – Not by Name
While other products may feature ingredients of the same name, these general classifications of ingredients vary significantly in chemical composition and, subsequently, in biological activity.
The Immune System of Ruminants Report
The immune system is a multi-layered complex collection of cells and mechanisms essential for maintaining health and protecting the body from a wide variety of disease-causing organisms or pathogens.
Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome Technical Bulletin
Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome (HBS) is characterized as an acute and sometimes massive hemorrhage in the small intestine (Rowson and LaFaunce, 2014, Figure 1).
Heat Stress Technical Bulletin
Heat is one of many stressors that can affect your herd’s health and productivity.
Days Open Technical Bulletin
Recent research has expanded our understanding of the impacts of fresh cow diseases on reproduction in dairy cows, and how these diseases work to affect reproductive performance.
Mastitis Technical Bulletin
Mastitis is the most common disease in the dairy industry and identified as the third reason cows are permanently removed from a herd (NAHMS, 2014).
The Value of Improving Fertility
Supplementation Can Lead to Improved Fertility and Increased Producers’ Bottom Lines.
Udder Health, Milk Yield and Milk Quality
University of Georgia Study Evaluates Holstein Heifers Fed OmniGen® AF from Five Months Until Freshening, Measures Impact on Mastitis, SCC and Milk Yield
Study Finds Cows Fed OmniGen® Had 10 Fewer Days Open
University Studies Show Improved Dairy Cow Reproductive Performance
Trial Examines Effects of Feeding OmniGen® on Herd with Major Health Issues
University of Georgia with Phibro research team examines OmniGen’s impact on mastitis prevalence and somatic cell counts during stress period.
Nutritional Immunomodulation + Heat Stress – How Are Your Cows Affected?
Study examines the effects of nutritional immunomodulation and heat stress during the dry period on the next lactation performance of dairy cows.1
Trial Measures RNA Differences When Animals are Fed Various Feed Additives
Study Provides Insights into Immune Function Allowing Greater Understanding of Dairy Cows’ Ability to Defend Against Diseases and Syndromes Like HBS.
Connecting the Dots Between Immunity and HBS Incidence
How Feeding OmniGen® Can Bolster Your Dairy Cattle’s Immune System to Better Defend Against Challenges.
Help Alleviate the Effects of Heat Stress in Dairy Cows
84-Day Study Evaluates Whether OmniGen® is Equally Effective in Grazing vs. Confined Dairy Cows1
Four Ways to Protect Your Dairy Cows
Learn how OmniGen nutritional specialty products are formulated to support your herd through some of your operation’s toughest challenges.
Reduced Days Open
Learn how OmniGen nutritional specialty products can help improve immune response leading to fewer health events, which may decrease days open.
Nutrition’s Role in Mitigating the Effects of Heat Stress
Learn how OmniGen nutritional specialty products offer immune support to help your cows handle the effects of heat stress.
Results You Can See. Returns You Can’t Ignore.
In this newer dairy normal, there’s no escaping change. Especially when you’re trying to control costs in an uncertain market.
OmniGen® Research Publications
This collection of published university research and field studies shows that continual use of OmniGen® helps support a healthy immune system.
Researchers Study Effects of Feeding OmniGen® on Reproductive Performance
Feeding OmniGen AF to dairy cows from dry-off to 150 DIM was associated with improved health and performance1.
The Costly Effects of Heat Stress on Dairy Productivity
Unmitigated heat stress can cost an average of $264 per cow2 per year. Fortunately, there are products designed to help.
Study Examines Role of Immunomodulatory Feed Additives
Findings suggest OmniGen AF prepares animals to better resist mastitis infection1
Measuring and Managing HBS and Other Costly Issues
Minnesota dairy producer teams up with Phibro to assess a herd fraught with health and production challenges1.
Continuing Education For Dairy Professionals
Impact of Heat Stress Throughout the Lactation Cycle
The High Fertility Cycle
The Impacts of Stress on Dairy Cattle Health & Performance
Dairy Cattle Products
OmniGen® nutritional specialty products can help supplement your management strategy with a proven 2.5:1 return on investment.3
OmniGen Green is Organic Material Review Institute (OMRI) listed.
