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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas.
Fecha corriente: | 21/02/2014
Fecha de la última actualización: | 07/12/2018
Autoria: | BAYEMI, P. H.; NSONGKA, M. V.; LEINYUY, I.; WEBB, E. C.; NCHADJI, J. M.; CAVESTANY, D.; BRYANT, M.
Afiliación: | POUGUE HENRI BAYEMI, Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon; MUNJI VICTORINE NSONGKA, Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon; ISABELLE LEINYUY, Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon; EDWARD COTTINGTON WEBB, Head Department of Animal and Wildlife Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa; JUSTIN MBANYA NCHADJI, Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon; DANIEL CAVESTANY BOCKING, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; MIKE BRYANT, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, UK.
Título: | Effect of pre-partum feed supplementation on post-partum ovarian activity, milk production and calf growth of small holder dairy Cattle in Cameroon.
Año de publicación: | 2015
Fuente/Imprenta: | Tropical Animal Health and Production, January 2015, vol. 47, Issue 1, pages 153-158.
ISSN: | 0049-4747 // Online ISSN 1573-7438
DOI: | 10.1007/s11250-014-0700-8
Idioma: | Inglés
Notas: | Article history: Received 31 August 2014 // Accepted 01 October 2014 // First Online 23 October 2014.

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.
Seventy-two cows were selected for an on-farm study on the effect of feed supplementation before calving on milk production, ovarian activity and calf growth of Holstein, indigenous Red Fulani cows and their crosses. Pre-partum feed supplementation was done using cotton seed cake (80 %), maize (18 %), bone meal (1 %) and kitchen salt (1 % NaCl). Supplementation levels consisted of a low supplementation fed at 1 kg per animal per day and high supplementation fed at 2 kg per animal per day. In addition, Red Fulani cows received the supplements in two different ways namely a pre-partum supplementation consisting of 1 kg per cow per day and pre- and post-partum supplementation consisting of 1 kg per cow per day before calving and 1 kg per cow per day post-partum up to 30 days after calving. Blood samples were analysed using ELISA Progesterone kits to determine the length of post-partum anoestrus. Results show that pre-partum levels of feeding did not have any effect (P&#8201;>&#8201;0.05) on body condition score (BCS) at 12 weeks after calving, calf birth weight, average daily weight gain of calves, milk production and post-partum anoestrus. High BCS at calving was shown to influence BCS at 12 weeks of lactation. Holstein cows had bigger calves (P&#8201;<&#8201;0.01) at birth (45 kg) compared to traditional cows (36 kg) and crosses (34 kg). There was little benefit of pre-partum supplementation on the parameters investigated in this study. Consequently, low income farmers are advised to concentrate their efforts of supplementation early in lactation.
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Palabras-Clave: | CAMEROON; PRE-PARTUM SUPPLEMENTATION; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDINS.
Thesagro: | ELISA.
Categoría del tema: | --
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