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Correlating the oral swab microbial community with milk production metrics in Holstein dairy cows.
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- Longitudinal Change in Rumen-Associated Bacterial Communities Following Aso Limonite Supplementation in Japanese Brown Cattle.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Microbial landscapes in dairy cow diseases: from localized dysbiosis to inter-organ axes.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Review
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Abstract
Oral swabs of dairy cows have been suggested as a proxy for direct ruminal sampling, and this approach can identify the presence of up to 70% of the rumen microbial community. Here, we further extend the utility of this approach by correlating the bacterial community of swabs collected from 226 dairy cows on a research farm in Wisconsin, USA, with average milk yield and days in milk, two phenotypes previously associated with differences in the ruminal microbiome. We then obtained milk production efficiency data for a subset of these animals (gross feed efficiency [GFE] and residual feed intake [RFI]) and correlated these metrics against their associated microbial data. We found that when using the oral swabs, we could identify correlations between bacterial genera and days in milk (
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