EJPAU 2005. Błaszkowska M. , Twardoń J. THE METHOD USED FOR ESTIMATION OF CALVES VITALITY

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2005
Volume 8
Issue 2

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Veterinary Medicine

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Błaszkowska M. , Twardoń J. 2005. THE METHOD USED FOR ESTIMATION OF CALVES VITALITY, EJPAU 8(2), #16.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume8/issue2/abs-16.html

THE METHOD USED FOR ESTIMATION OF CALVES VITALITY

Małgorzata Błaszkowska¹, Jan Twardoń²
¹ Department and Clinic of Reproduction, Ruminats Diseases and Animal Health Protection, Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland
² Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Science, Poland

ABSTRACT

The occurrence of young calves' morbidity and mortality is quite often in large commercial dairy farms. It significantly rises the financial costs of breeding cows. For calves' neonates the most important factor in preventing diseases is colostrum and its immunoglobulins. The passive transfer of immunoglobulins could often be possible only if postnatal vitality of a calf is good enough to allow suckling. In our investigations we tried to estimate relationships between postnatal vitality of a calf and the ability to absorb colostral Ig. There were investigated: postnatal vitality, the amount of ingested colostrum, the time needed for first suckling and occurrence of diseases among investigated calves.

Key words: calf, immunoglobulin, vitality, diseases.

Małgorzata Błaszkowska
Department and Clinic of Reproduction,
Ruminats Diseases and Animal Health Protection,
Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland
Grunwaldzki Square 49, 50-366, Wroclaw, Poland
tel/fax 0048 71 3205 306
email: bgosia@epf.pl

Jan Twardoń
Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Science, Poland
pl. Grunwaldzki 47
50-366 Wrocław, Poland
Phone +48 71 32-05-306
fax: +48 71 32-05-302
email: jan.twardon@up.wroc.pl

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