Body lipid reserves and the reproductive cycle: towards a better understanding

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Feeding- and management-related diseases in the transition cow (2006, background): “Cows, like other mammals, have developed a strategy to build up body reserves in anticipation of lactation and to use these reserves in support of lactation (Friggens, 2003) and these changes in body reserves are hormonally regulated as discussed in Section 2.”
Invited review: Body condition score and its association with dairy cow productivity, health, and welfare. (2009, background): “…are models of BCS change that are based on the premise that the accretion of body reserves in pregnancy and their mobilization in early lactation are evolutionary adaptations that confer an advantage to the cow in terms of safeguarding her reproductive investment (Knight, 2001; Friggens, 2003).”