Tropical Animal Science Journal, 2023 This study aimed to assess the usefulness of injury biomarkers specific to the intestines in identifying the presence and degree of intestinal epithelial damage in coccidiosis-infected calves. Forty calves of various breeds and sexes, aged 21 days to 60
M. K. Durgut, M. Ok
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Determining the predictive capability of a Clinical Assessment Scoring Chart to differentiate severity of the clinical consequences of neonatal calf diarrhea relative to gold-standard blood gas analysis. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Neonatal calf diarrhea (NCD) is a major problem to calf health worldwide, in terms of both morbidity and mortality. A five-point ordinal scale clinical assessment scoring (CAS) chart was utilized to assess calves suffering from NCD-related clinical ...
Dillane P +4 more
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Demonstration of early functional compromise of bone marrow derived hematopoietic progenitor cells during bovine neonatal pancytopenia through in vitro culture of bone marrow biopsies [PDF]
, 2012 Background Bovine neonatal pancytopenia (BNP) is a syndrome characterised by thrombocytopenia associated with marked bone marrow destruction in calves, widely reported since 2007 in several European countries and since 2011 in New Zealand. The disease is
Ballingall, Keith T +8 more
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mSystems, 2021 Neonatal calf diarrhea is a common disease leading to a major economic loss for cattle producers worldwide. Several infectious and noninfectious factors are implicated in calf diarrhea, but disease control remains problematic because of the ...
Tae Woong Whon +12 more
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Rangifer population ecology: a Scandinavian perspective
Rangifer, 1997 Population ecology is concerned with measuring changes in population size and composition, and identifying the causes of these fluctuations. Important driving variables include animal body size and growth rate, and their relationship to reproduction and ...
Eigil Reimers
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Effects of maternal subnutrition during early pregnancy on cow hematological profiles and offspring physiology and vitality in two beef breeds [PDF]
, 2019 This experiment evaluated the effects of subnutrition during early gestation on hematology in cows (Bos Taurus) and on hematological, metabolic, endocrine, and vitality parameters in their calves.
Almaguer C. +9 more
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Milk Delivery in Tropically-Adapted Neonatal Beef Calves
Proceedings, 2020 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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Why Do So Many Calves Die on Modern Dairy Farms and What Can We Do about Calf Welfare in the Future?
Animals, 2013 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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Comparison of serum immunoglobulin G half-life in dairy calves fed colostrum, colostrum replacer or administered with intravenous bovine plasma. [PDF]
, 2014 In calves, passive immunity of immunoglobulins can be acquired through ingestion of colostrum or colostrum replacers. Plasma can been used to supplement immunoglobulins in healthy or sick calves.
Chigerwe, Munashe +2 more
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Incidences of Calf Diarrhea and the Associated Risk Factors in Ivory Coast (2015-2017)
Revista de Ciências Agroveterinárias, 2020 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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