期刊
ANIMAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
卷 84, 期 2, 页码 101-105出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/asj.12019
关键词
animal welfare; mortality rate; newborn calf; prevention; productivity
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [23580378]
- Azabu University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23580378] Funding Source: KAKEN
Calf mortality control is vitally important for farmers, not only to improve animal welfare, but also to increase productivity. High calf mortality rates can be related to larger numbers of calves in a herd, employee performance, severe weather, and the neonatal period covering the first 4 weeks of life. Although the basic premise of preventing newborn calf mortality is early detection and treatment of calves at risk for failure of passive transfer of immunoglobulins, calf mortality due to infectious diseases such as acute diarrhea increases in the presence of these physical and psychological stressors. This suggests that farmers should not ignore the effects of secondary environmental factors. For prevention rather than cure, the quality of the environment should be improved, which will improve not only animal welfare but also productivity. This paper presents a review of the literature on newborn calf mortality and discusses its productivity implications.
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