Prevalence of some metabolic disturbances and their risk factor during post calving of Thai dairy cattle in small holder farm

Chaidate Inchaisri. Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Veterinary Medicine E-mail:chaidate@hotmail.com; Kittisak Ajariyakhajorn. Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Veterinary Medicine; Somchai Junpongsang. Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Animal Husbandry; Wittaya Siriyasataporn. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Dept. of Ruminant Clinic; Tanu Pinyopummintr. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Reproduction; J.P.T.M., Noordhuizen. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Dept. of Farm Animal Health

Prevalence of some metabolic disturbances and their risk factor during post calving of Thai dairy cattle in small holder farm

2005

Chaidate Inchaisri(Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Veterinary Medicine) E-mail:chaidate@hotmail.com | Kittisak Ajariyakhajorn(Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Veterinary Medicine) | Somchai Junpongsang(Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. Department of Animal Husbandry) | Wittaya Siriyasataporn(Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai (Thailand). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Dept. of Ruminant Clinic) | Tanu Pinyopummintr(Kasetsart University. Bangkhen Campus, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Reproduction) | J.P.T.M., Noordhuizen(Utrecht University, Yalelaan 7 (Netherland). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Dept. of Farm Animal Health)

Objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of some metabolic disturbances including negative energy balance (NEB), subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA), low serum urea nitrogen (SUN) and high SUN, and to investigate the risk factor involving with these metabolic disturbances. The study was conducted with cross-sectional study in early lactation cows during 3-5 weeks post calving in 35 farms (320 cows). The prevalence of NEB, SARA, low SUN and high SUN were 15.9 percent, 22.3 percent, 36.9 percent and 14.0 percent respectively. The linear association between serum beta-hydroxybutyrate (SBHB) and ruminal pH was found significantly (p LT 0.05). The main risk factors of SARA include younger cow, low SBHB cow, cow fed with corn tip and corn husk. The risk for NEB are high ruminal pH cow, high body condition score (BCS) cow before calving, low BCS cow at sampling time, cow fed by low concentrate amount per time and the preventive factors for NEB are cow fed by more times of concentrate and cow fed with roughage chopping. Adding extra protein source can reduce low SUN while feeding cow by lower percentage of protein in concentrate can reduce the high SUN. Feeding cow by commercial concentrate is the high risk for high SUN. The suitable management should be advised the farmer to improve dairy cow health in small dairy holder farm.

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