Research Update: Liliana Rivas and Cow Efficiency

On this week’s BCI Cattle Chat episode, graduate student Liliana Rivas updates us on her research about leaky guts in yearling calves. She conducted this by feeding the calves a restricted diet and measuring indigestible sugars in the bloodstream over 36 hours. The experts also discussed cow efficiency, measured as pounds of calf weaned per pound of feed consumed per cow exposed. A key finding was that the nutrition models in the study underestimated the extent to which energy restriction harms reproduction. 3:10 Research Update 12:27 Cow Efficiency For more on BCI Cattle Chat,

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Research Update: Liliana Rivas and Cow Efficiency is an episode from BCI Cattle Chat by BCI Cattle Chat.

This episode is 22:24 long.

This episode was published on Feb 6, 2026.

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