Abstract Our objectives were to determine how pre-finishing plane of nutrition, season, and breed beef sire affect performance, efficiency, carcass attributes dairy-beef hybrid calves. Dairy × steers (3 7 d age) maintained on either a moderate nutrition or high from 0 12 wk age. Calves (n = 211, BW 122 ± 16 kg) then transported 689 km the OSU Sparks Beef Research Center at an average age 92 1.6...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of maternal inbreeding on incidence of twinning,dystocia and stillbirth in Holstein cows of Iran. Calving records from March 2000 to April 2009 comprisingof 365,021 calvings on 153,802 cows from 86 dairy herds were used. The mean level of inbreeding was0.7%, less than 37% of all animals were inbred, and a small proportion (3.45%) of inbree...

Probiotics are a promising alternative to improve food animal productivity and health. However, scientific evidence that specific microbes can be used to benefit animal health and performance is limited. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of administering a live culture of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii to newborn dairy calves on subsequent growth, health, and fecal microbiom...

BACKGROUND Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is 1 of the 2 most important causes of morbidity and mortality in dairy calves. Surprisingly, field data are scant concerning the prevalence of respiratory pathogens involved in BRD in preweaned dairy calves, especially in small herds. OBJECTIVES To identify the main respiratory pathogens isolated from calves in Québec dairy herds with a high incide...

background: cryptosporidium parvum is a protozoan parasite which belongs to apicomplexa phylum. the parasite infects both wild and domesticated animals and human beings as well. objectives: the purpose of the present study was to detect oocyst shedding and diarrhea pattern in experimental cryptosporidiosis and their correlation with weight loss in neonatal calves. methods: twelve holstein calve...

Belgian Blue (BB) cattle are very sensitive to mange caused by Psoroptes ovis and, in contrast to the case in Holstein cattle, single treatments with ivermectin do not result in complete elimination of the parasite. The objective of the present study was to determine the concentration of ivermectin in plasma, skin and hair following subcutaneous administration to Holstein and BB calves and to a...

Abstract A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of a live yeast supplement in preweaning and finishing diets Holstein bull calves on growth performance, carcass quality attributes physiochemical traits. bulls (n = 39) at 5 days age were randomly allocated one two treatment groups with 20 receiving no 19 supplement. The inclusion level pre-weaning diet 54 mg/calf/day added milk replacer. ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of orally administered cisapride, bethanechol, and erythromycin on the absorption of colostral IgG in dairy calves. ANIMALS Twenty-four healthy neonatal Holstein-Friesian calves. PROCEDURES Calves were randomly assigned to one of the following treatments: 0.9% NaCl solution (2 mL, p.o.; negative control); erythromycin lactobionate (20 mg/kg BW, p.o.; anticip...

An animal feeding trial was conducted on 18 seven-day-old Holstein dairy bull calves weighing 42 ± 3 kg each. Calves were randomly assigned into three groups (n = 6 each). The dietary treatments were as follows: (1) milk and starter for the control group (MS), (2) supplementation of oat hay from week 2 on the basis of milk and starter (MSO2), and (3) supplementation of oat hay from week 6 on th...

the purposes of this study were to estimate the effects of risk factors on stillbirth parturition and evaluatethe effects of stillbirth on lactation performance in holstein dairy cows. data were obtained from a dairycattle herd located in isfahan province, iran. the logit of the probability of stillbirth was modeled usinglogistic regression and the effect of stillbirth on lactation performance ...