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Effect of colostrum on the acute-phase response in neonatal dairy calves
: The core part of the mammal innate immune system is the acute-phase response (APR), during which acute-phase proteins (APP) are synthesized. Colostrum contains immunomodulating factors such as proinflammatory cytokines and APP in large quantities.
Kristel Peetsalu +5 more
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Why Do So Many Calves Die on Modern Dairy Farms and What Can We Do about Calf Welfare in the Future?
Poor bovine neonatal survival rates are an international animal welfare issue. The key modifiable risk factors associated with such loss are age at first calving in primiparae, calf breed, gender and gestation length and calving management.
John F. Mee
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This study investigated the effect of colostrum feeding time on the colon digesta microbiome of 2-day-old dairy calves using whole-genome-based metagenome sequencing, aiming to understand the dynamic changes of the colon microbiome when the colostrum ...
Yang Song +9 more
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Pericardial Mesothelioma in a Neonatal Calf
We encountered an extremely rare tumor, a pericardial mesothelioma, in a neonatal calf. The patient calf showed severe abdominal distention, and died immediately after birth. The thoracic cavity was contained a huge heart with a large amount of pericardial fluid.
TAKASU, Masaki +9 more
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Milk Delivery in Tropically-Adapted Neonatal Beef Calves
Across beef breeding herds of northern Australia, poor pre-partum nutrition of cows is consistently associated with increased calf wastage between confirmed pregnancy and weaning.
Jarud Muller +2 more
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STUDIES ON NEONATAL CALF DIARRHEA IN KUWAIT [PDF]
causes significant economic losses due to morbidity, mortality, and therapy cost and decreasedrates of development in affected calves. Multiple enteric pathogens are known to cause this diseaseincluding viruses, bacteria and parasites.
QAIS MAJEED, MAHA ALAZEMI
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SOME OF THE RISK FACTORS OF NILI-RAVI BUFFALO (BUBALUS BUBALIS) NEONATAL CALF MORTALITY IN PAKISTAN [PDF]
This study was carried out to investigate neonatal calf mortality (NCM) in 864 Nili-Ravi buffalo calves born during 1993-2000 at the Livestock Production Research Institute (LPRI), Bahadurnagar, Okara, Pakistan.
T. ZAMAN, A. KHAN AND M. Z. AKHTAR
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Age-dependent differences in the pathogenesis of bovine respiratory syncytial virus infections related to the development of natural immunocompetence [PDF]
The severity of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections appears to differ with age in both humans and bovines. A primary RSV infection in naïve infants and in young calves runs a more severe course when they are 1–6 months old than in their first ...
Most, R.G., van der +6 more
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Incidences of Calf Diarrhea and the Associated Risk Factors in Ivory Coast (2015-2017)
Diarrhea is the most important disease of neonatal calves, and it results in the greatest economic losses. A longitudinal observational study was conducted from September 2015 to October 2017.
Jacques Danho Monney +3 more
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Pain causes altered arousal and specific behaviours that are rare at other times (pain indicators). We examined whether beef cows (mean age 6 years) are sensitive to pain indicators in addition to arousal following ear tagging and rubber ring castration (
Simon P. Turner +3 more
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