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Impact of plane of nutrition and analgesic treatment on wound healing and pain following cautery disbudding in preweaned dairy calves

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Nutrition has been reported to be a crucial part of the wound healing process in humans as malnutrition has been well-documented to impede wound healing; however, this has not been evaluated in disbudding wounds in calves. Although it is becoming more common to feed an increased nutritional plane to young dairy calves, 33% of Canadian producers in a 2015 survey were still feeding calves low levels of milk (< 6 L/d). The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a biologically normal plane of nutrition compared to a limited plane on the primary outcome wound healing, and one dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) compared to 2 on the secondary outcomes: lying behaviour, haptoglobin concentrations, and mechanical nociceptive threshold (MNT) in calves disbudded via cautery iron.

Source: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings

DOI: 10.21423/aabppro20228668

Authors: C. N. Reedman, T. F. Duffield, T. J. DeVries, K. D. Lissemore, S. Adcock, C. Tucker, S. Parson, C. B. Winder

Institutions: Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, University of California, Davis

Language: English

Topic: Animal health and immunology

Subfield: Small Animals

Field: Veterinary

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4384697644

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