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Yeast cell walls and live yeasts diet supplementation in beef cattle: effect on rumen fermentations and ultrasonographic rumen wall findings
Full text linkThe objective of this thesis was to determine the effect of yeast supplements on the performance and health of beef cattle during the receiving and finishing period. Furthermore, another aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of rumenocentesis on beef cattle and the viability of transabdominal ultrasonography of the rumen mucosa as a suitable, non-invasive diagnostic tool to identify beef cattle affected by SARA. Three trails were conducted in order to do achieve that. Trail I and Trail II were conducted simultaneously using the same animals, while the third trail used a larger sample but always in the same herd. Trail I and II assessed the effect of dietary supplementation of yeast cell wall (YCW) and live cell yeast (LY) at different dosages on rumen’s metabolites. Sixty Charolaise steers were divided into two groups on the basis of their feeding phase: growing and finishing. Growing and finishing groups were each randomly divided into equal three subgroups (n = 10): no supplement (growing control), supplemented with YCW, and supplemented with LY + YCW, no supplement (finishing control), supplemented with LY and supplemented with LY + YCW. Ruminal fluid has been collected before, after 21 and 42 days of experimental period in order to evaluate the volatile fatty acids concentrations and pH values. Faeces samples were collected before (T0), after 21 (T1) and 42 (T2) days of the start of the study, which took place simultaneously and analysed for dry matter (DM), Ash, crude protein (CP), ethereal extract (EE), neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF), acid detergent lignin (ADL) and Starch detection. Dietary supplementation of LY and YCW increased (P<0.05) DM, ADF and ADL faecal concentrations in the growing phase; DM, ADL and Starch faecal concentrations in the finishing phase. T2/FC Diet showed a significant effect (P<0.001) of different diets respect to T2/FB in the finishing stage. The obtained results suggest that yeast supplementation do not have beneficial effects with all type of diet condition. Statistical analysis of VFA's data showed a significant effect of time (P < .05) on all studied parameters except iso-valeric acid both in growing and finishing groups. Changes among growing subgroups (P < .05) on propionic acid, acetic acid, iso-butyric acid and n-butyric acid were found, whereas no statistical significances were found among finishing subgroups. Trail III was conducted on 478 beef cattle of Charolaise breed, they were monitored three times during the livestock cycle in order to evaluating the rumen fluid pH and to assess the measures of the rumen wall: T0: 5±3 d after the arrival in farm;T1: 60±10 d after arrival; T2: 1 month before slaughter. Period effect (P<0.001) were found between the three periods after 10 days from the housing, rumen pH values were lower than the threshold value of 5.71 in T0 than in T1 and T2. Pearson’s analysis showed interaction between pH and total ultrasound thickness of rumen wall (-0.700; P<0.0001) and rumen mucosa (-0.7921; P<0.0001). Both differentiation efficiency of mucosal and submucosal layer thickness and rumen wall thickness between healthy and ruminal acidosis affected animals, as a result of ROC curve analysis, was excellent. Using a cut-off value of 5.4 mm, sensitivity was 96.30% and specificity was 91.60% on mucosal and submucosal layer. Using a cut-off value of 8.2 mm, sensitivity was 91.36% and specificity was 91.60 % on rumen wall thickness.
The study show that transabdominal ultrasonography of the rumen mucosa has the potential to be a suitable diagnostic tool to identify fattening bulls affected by SARA
METHAPHYLACTIC EFFECT OF TULATHROMYCIN TREATMENT ON RUMEN FLUID PARAMETERS IN FEEDLOT BEEF CATTLE
No full textRumen volatile fatty acids × dietary supplementation with live yeast and yeast cell wall in feedlot beef cattle
No full textUltrasonographic alterations of bovine claws sole soft tissues associated with claw horn disruption lesions, body condition score and locomotion score in Holstein dairy cows
Full text linkEffect of combined acetylmethionine, cyanocobalamin and α-lipoic acid on hepatic metabolism in high-yielding dairy cow
No full textThe aim of the study reported in this Research Communication was to investigate the effect of a combined acetylmethionine, cyanocobalamin and α-lipoic acid treatment, on some metabolic parameters of early lactating high-yielding dairy cows. Thirty cows were randomly divided into two groups: experimental group (EG, n = 20) and control group (CG, n = 10). EG received 20 ml of treatment and CG received 20 ml of placebo. The treatments were administered for seven times every 2 d. Blood samples were collected from all cows at 3 time points: 10 ± 2, 30 ± 2 and 50 ± 2 d postpartum. Glucose, β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA), triglycerides, total cholesterol (TC), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), γ-glutamiltransferase (GGT), total bilirubin (TB), conjugated bilirubin (CB), total proteins (TP), globulins, albumin and urea concentrations were determined. Two-way repeated measure analysis of variance was applied. Significant differences in the values of glucose, BHB, NEFA, triglycerides, TC, AST and urea were found between EG and CG. Moreover, the increased glucose, TC, ALT, GGT, TP and globulins, and the reduced BHB, NEFA, AST, triglycerides, TB, CB and urea concentrations were evident in both groups, but the changes were more pronounced in EG. Our findings indicate that our treatment positively influenced liver metabolism in high-yielding dairy cows
Evaluation of venous blood gas analysis in milk fed calves at different period of livestock cycle
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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