the objective of this study was to determine the effect of calcium borogluconate injection 24, 48 hours prepartum and immediately postpartum on dry matter intake at day of calving, milk yield, and as well on blood metabolites during the first 21 days of postpartum in cows fed anionic diets. thirty six lactating dairy cows were arrenged by parity (1, 2, 3+) and allocated to three subcutaneous in...

Consumption of Ponderosa pine needles by late-pregnant beef cows results in the premature delivery of a viable calf. We have demonstrated the presence of a factor(s1 in plasma from cows fed pine needles that specifically increased uterine arterial tone (i.e., decreased arterial diameter) in vitro. This study was designed to investigate changes in uterine blood flow and steroid secretioduptake b...

The objectives of this study were to analyze the incidence of different categories of stillborn piglets in relation to genetic merit for farrowing survival of sows and litters and to analyze relationships of total number of piglets born per litter, average BW of the litter, and within-litter variation in BW with genetic merit for farrowing survival of sows and litters. Records of 336 purebred l...

We tested the hypothesis that fetal cardiovascular responses to hypoxemia change close to full term in relation to the prepartum increase in fetal basal cortisol and investigated, in vivo, the neural and endocrine mechanisms underlying these changes. Fetal heart rate and peripheral hemodynamic responses to 1 h of hypoxemia were studied in 25 chronically instrumented sheep within three narrow ge...

The decrease in circulating concentrations of progesterone is the lactogenic trigger in many species. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of an orally active progestogen, altrenogest, administered in late gestation, on lactogenesis in sows. Gilts were treated with altrenogest (20 mg/d) from d 109 to 112 of gestation (ALT112, n = 6) or d 113 (ALT113, n = 8) or were not treat...

this study was performed to evaluate the effects of crud protein (cp) level on dry matter intake in prepartum period, productive performance and health of fresh cows. twenty multiparous holstein cows were assigned randomly to one of two dietary treatments. dietary treatments were treatment 1, 13% cp of dm (control), and treatment 2, 16% cp of dm. diets were similar in lactation net energy and r...

Supplementation of organic trace mineral (OTM) may affect reproductive functions in several aspects and has been studied, but very rare is reported dairy cows. To determine the effects dietary OTM supplement during pre- postpartum with timed artificial insemination (TAI) protocol on steroid hormones, antioxidant enzymes, performances Prepartum Holstein cows (n = 60) were randomly assigned to re...

The antiviral potential of human colostral leucocytes was assessed by their capacity to produce interferon. Leucocytes cultured from colostrum were stimulated by mitogens or Newcastle disease virus (NDV) to produce interferon which, by metabolic and physicochemical criteria, corresponded to normal human leucocyte interferon. Prepartum cells produced higher levels than postpartum cells. Colostra...