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Giovanna Evangelista

M.S. student in Animal Sciences at the University of Florida researching dairy cattle and ruminant nutrition under Dr. José E.P. Santos.

Oct 8, 2026

3:02
Payday.
3:07
So our goal was to discover all the phenotypic factors such as cow level and calf level factors that was influencing the cow to produce colostrum and also the colostrum composition.
3:20
And also the genetic effects.
3:22
So how was the irritability, for example.
3:26
And we had over 4,000 animals across 11 experiments.
3:32
And also 38 treatments involved.
3:36
And basically, we started with univariable models, putting some factors such as calving season, parity prepartum, dry period, and calf birth body weight, and several others in univariable models just to see which ones had the p-value lower or equal 0.20.

6 MINS LATER

10:27
Are there any other vitamin and mineral type products? Or do you plan on doing any nutritional research to see if you can influence colostrum yield?

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