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Biblioteca(s): | INIA La Estanzuela.
Fecha corriente: | 11/05/2021
Fecha de la última actualización: | 11/05/2021
Autoria: | DE SOUZA TEIXEIRA, O.; KUCZYNSKI DA ROCHA, M; MENDES PAIZANO ALFORMA, A.; SILVA FERNANDES, V.; DE OLIVEIRA FEIJÓ, J; NUNES CORRÊA, M.; CANOZZI, M.E.A.; MCMANUS,C.; BARCELLOS, J,O.J.
Afiliación: | ODILENE DE SOUZA TEIXEIRA, Beef Cattle Center for Research on Systems of Beef Cattle Production and Supply Chain, Department of Animal Production, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; MARCELA KUCZYNSKI DA ROCHA, Beef Cattle Center for Research on Systems of Beef Cattle Production and Supply Chain, Department of Animal Production, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.; ANTÓNIA MENDES PAIZANO ALFORMA, Beef Cattle Center for Research on Systems of Beef Cattle Production and Supply Chain, Department of Animal Production, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.; VANESSA SILVA FERNANDES, Beef Cattle Center for Research on Systems of Beef Cattle Production and Supply Chain, Department of Animal Production, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.; JOSIANE DE OLIVEIRA FEIJÓ, Department of Veterinary Clinics, Federal University of Pelotas, 96160-000, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.; MARCIO NUNES CORRÊA, Department of Veterinary Clinics, Federal University of Pelotas, 96160-000, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.; MARÍA EUGENIA ANDRIGHETTO CANOZZI, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; CONCEPTA MCMANUS, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil.; JÚLIO OTÁVIO JARDIM BARCELLOS, Beef Cattle Center for Research on Systems of Beef Cattle Production and Supply Chain, Department of Animal Production, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Título: | Behavioural and physiological responses of male and female beef cattle to weaning at 30, 75 or 180 days of age.
Año de publicación: | 2021
Fuente/Imprenta: | Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume 240, July 2021, 105339. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105339
DOI: | 10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105339
Idioma: | Inglés

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ABSTRACT:
Weaning calves at a young age can generate great stress, but it is widely practiced in the industry despite that. So, to what extend weaning in early ages is more stressful than at later ones, in terms of the amount of stress, is currently unknown. Thus, we studied the behavioural and physiological impacts in beef calves at three ages at weaning (30, 75, and 180 days) and the consequences of the calf?s sex. Thirty-six calves were weaned and distributed in hyper-early (W30), early (W75), and conventional (W180) weaning groups, which are weaning 
ages that occur in practice. Behavioural activities and physiological parameters were measured on days 0, 1, 2, and 7 after weaning. Canonical component analysis (CCA) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to evaluate behavioural and physiological parameters. The variables analysed were influenced by the treatment, day of evaluation and interaction between treatment × day, and without effect for sex. The younger the calf, the greater the intensity of responses to the weaning stress. In this sense, the behavioural results (percentages of 
observations ± SEM) demonstrate that on D0, W30 calves emitted more extreme vocalization (61 %) compared to W75 (15 %) and W180 (0%) (P < 0.001); on D1, W30 and W75 calves expressed more extreme sounds (61 % and 50 %, respectively) than W180 (21 %) (P = 0.028). Similarly, W30 and W75 calves showed a higher number of cross-sucking (P = 0.006). On D0, differences in the frequency of walking (P < 0.001) were observed, once calves of W30 (45.5 ± 6.21 %) and W75 (39.9 ± 6.03 %) spent more time in this activity than W180 ones (17.3 ± 3.80 %). Also, more visiting the feeder without eating feed events were verified (P = 0.014) on D0 (11.5 ± 2.59 %) and D1 (6.2 ± 1.65 %) for W30 when compared to W180 calves (2.6 ± 1.73 % and 0.0 ± 0.00 %, respectively). In physiological terms, a higher respiratory rate (P = 0.043) on D0 was identified for W30 calves (66.3 ± 2.90 breaths/min) than for W75 (57.8 ± 2.30 breaths/min) or W180 (47.3 ± 2.02 breaths/min). Cortisol concentrations were higher (P = 0.019) on D0 for W30 animals (15.6 ± 3.40 ng/mL) than for W180 ones (9.7 ± 1.90 ng/mL). The peak of cortisol occurred on D1 for W30 and D2 for W75 and W180. Therefore, behavioural and physiological changes at young ages indicate greater calf suffering, which may have negative consequences on a productive life.

Palabras-Clave: | Animal welfare; Beef cattle; Cortisol  Stress; Maternal separation; Walking.
Categoría del tema: | --
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