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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Treinta y Tres.
Tipo de la producción científica: | Artículos en Revistas Indexadas Internacionales
Circulación/Nivel: | A - B
Fecha corriente: | 21/11/2016
Fecha de la última actualización: | 11/10/2019
Autoria: | UNGERFELD, R.; QUINTANS, G.; HOTZEL, M.J.
Afiliación: | DEPARTAMENTO DE FISIOLOGÍA, FACULTAD DE VETERINARIA, UDELAR.; GRACIELA QUINTANS ILARIA, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; LABORATORIO DE ETOLOGÍA APLICADA, DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOTECNIA E DESENVOVIMENTO RURAL, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL.
Título: | Minimizing cows' stress when calves were early weaned using the two-step method with nose flaps.
Año de publicación: | 2016
Fuente/Imprenta: | Animal, 2016, v.10(11), p. 1871-1876.
DOI: | 10.1017/S1751731116000793
Idioma: | Inglés
Notas: | Article history: Received 12 November 2015; accepted 2 March 2016; First published online 29 April 2016.

Contenido:

Abstract:
Early weaning may be used in beef cattle production to improve reproduction rates in range conditions. However, weaning causes a stress response in cows, which may be especially strong in early weaning management, as the bond between the cow and the calf is still strong. We hypothesized that weaning calves in two steps, with the aid of anti-sucking devices (nose flaps) would reduce the behavioural stress response in the cows separated from their calves 2 months after parturition. We compared the behaviour frequency and weight change in cows that were weaned abruptly, by separation of the calf on day 0 of the study, or in two steps, consisting of the use of anti-sucking nose flaps for 5 days before permanent separation; a third group was not weaned to serve as control. Thirty-six crossbred multiparous Aberdeen Angus × Hereford cows and their calves (n = 12/treatment) were managed in three paddocks with similar pasture availability, with four dyads from each treatment per paddock. Cows’ vehaviour was observed by direct visual instantaneous sampling, at 10 min intervals from days ?3 to 11. Weaning the calves in two steps clearly attenuated the behavioural stress response observed in abruptly weaned cows, which included reductions in grazing and lying, and increases in pacing, walking and vocalizing. Our results corroborate those previously shown for cows nursing older calves, and indicate that step weaning can reduce the behavioural stress response of cows at weaning, even when the calf is
weaned shortly after birth, when the bond between the cow and calf is still very strong.

Palabras-Clave: | ANIMAL WELFARE; BEEF CATTLE; BOS TAURUS; PACING; SUCKING.
Thesagro: | BOVINOS DE CARNE; REPRODUCCION ANIMAL.
Categoría del tema: | L10 Genética y mejoramiento animal
Registro original: | INIA Treinta y Tres (TT)
Ejemplares: | TT - (101819-1) - PXI - AP - DD - PP/ANIMAL/2016/QUINTANS/4 -  -  - DIS