Reproductive and health consequences of bovine abortions in the dairy basin of the Valle de Lerma, Salta, Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.14409/favecv.v20i2.10642Keywords:
abortion, dariy cattle, herd health, ArgentinaAbstract
In order to investigate the effects of bovine abortions in the dairy basin of Valle de Lerma records of 128 Holstein milking cows from the software of 4 dairy farms were studied. The abortions were classified into: aborted cows re-inseminated that continue in lactation (VAC, n = 36) and aborted cow that started a new lactation (VAI, n = 33) and were added the records of: cows with normal parturitions (NPV, n = 59). Milk litters accumulated at 305 lactation days (L / 305), days in lactation (DEL), the intervals between calvings (IPP), number of post-abortion health disorders and number of cows that continues, culled, death or slaughtered were recorded. Continuous variables were subjected to analysis of variance with a mixed linear model and the discrete ones to Chi square test and Odds Ratio (OR). No differences were found between the milk litters production (L / 305) of NPV (8640) and VAC (8498) cows but there were differences (p <0.0001) between those groups and the VAI group (5742) considering the cows of different number of lactations and gestational time to abortion. The VAC group had DEL (p <0.0001) and PPI (p <0.0001) respectively longer (639.7 and 441.2 d.) than those of VAI (419.9 and 404.2 d.) and NPV (405.5 e 476.7 d.) cows. Aborted cows (VAC + VAI) had a higher (p <0.0001) probability of contracting, respectively reproductive health disorders (OR= 6.5, CI 3.2 - 24.3) and culls plus deaths / slaughters (OR = 6.72, CI 2.9-15.1) than those of NPV. These results show the serious effects of abortions on milk production, reproductive performance and health of dairy cows.
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