Effects of twice a day teat bucket feeding compared to twice a day mother suckling on behaviour, health traits and blood immune parameters in dairy calves and immune parameters in cow's milk

Bieber, Anna; Walkenhorst, Michael; Eppenstein, Rennie; Probst, Johanna; Thüer, Susann; Baki, Cem; Martin, Bruno; Neff, Anet Spengler

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105644

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“…One of the most common practices in dairy farming is to separate calves from their mothers immediately after calving ( 16 ). However, consumers question the ethics of this practice ( 17 ), and calf rearing with cow contact has increased in recent years ( 8 ).…”

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“…In addition to separation time, other separation strategies have also been investigated ( 8 , 20 , 21 ). There are four main rearing systems described in the literature.…”

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“…In addition, the combination between full contact and abrupt weaning stresses cows and calves ( 20 ). Partial contact, on the other hand, has been shown to reduce abnormal behaviour such as cross-sucking and no differences in health have been found ( 8 ). Half-day contact seems particularly promising as animals become accustomed to separation, experience positive humane treatment and calves can learn to use a milk feeder to prevent stunting after weaning ( 10 ).…”

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“…Bonding with the mother and the best time for separation still need further study ( 8 ). Traditionally, dairy calves are separated from their dam within hours after birth and reared artificially, but in recent years cow-calf contact rearing has received more attention as a more natural system ( 9 , 10 ).…”

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Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 – Social management

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IntroductionRaising a healthy calf up to puberty is essential for optimal farm performance. It is therefore, it is necessary to promote animal welfare from the three spheres during this short period. Social management has been postulated as essential in lowering stress and consequently improving calf welfare during this period. Only the health sphere has been studied for a long time, but more recent studies have recently promoted positive experiences and emotional states from affective states or cognitive judgment and natural living spheres. A systematic review of different management strategies in rearing dairy calves according to the three spheres of animal welfare has been conducted using an electronic search strategy.MethodsThe analysis and extraction of information from the studies were performed according to a protocol. From 1,783 publications screened, only 351 met the inclusion criteria.ResultsThe publications identified in the search can be divided into two main groups, feeding and social management, based on the main topic of the publication. This review provides an overview of social management, understood as the calf’s interaction with others around it.DiscussionPrimary social management issues that emerged were social housing with congeners, separation from the mother and human-animal interaction, distributed in the three broad spheres of animal welfare. The review highlights unresolved questions about how social management practices affect the three spheres of animal welfare at this life stage and the need to standardize good socialization practices for this stage. In conclusion, all the information shows that social housing has improved animal welfare from affective states, cognitive judgment, and natural living spheres. However, gaps in research were identified in relation to the optimal time to separate the calf from the mother, the optimal time to group with conspecifics after birth and group size. Further research on positive welfare through socialization are needed.

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“…In addition to separation time, other separation strategies have also been investigated ( 8 , 20 , 21 ). There are four main rearing systems described in the literature.…”

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“…Injurious events were lower in a handling situation involving calves from farms with improved human‐animal relationship (defined as having a high frequency of farmer‐animal gentle contacts and a low frequency of rough contacts) than calves from farms with a poorer human‐animal relationship (Lensink et al., 2001 ). It has been shown that calves reared in CCC systems did not generally have a higher fear of humans compared with artificially reared calves (Mogensen et al., 1999 ; Bieber et al., 2022 ; Wenker et al., 2022 ). However, the risk of handling stress depends on the amount of human contact provided (Waiblinger et al., 2020 ).…”

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Welfare of calves

Nielsen¹,

Álvarez²,

Bicout³

et al. 2023

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This Scientific Opinion addresses a European Commission request on the welfare of calves as part of the Farm to Fork strategy. EFSA was asked to provide a description of common husbandry systems and related welfare consequences, as well as measures to prevent or mitigate the hazards leading to them. In addition, recommendations on three specific issues were requested: welfare of calves reared for white veal (space, group housing, requirements of iron and fibre); risk of limited cow-calf contact; and animal-based measures (ABMs) to monitor on-farm welfare in slaughterhouses. The methodology developed by EFSA to address similar requests was followed. Fifteen highly relevant welfare consequences were identified, with respiratory disorders, inability to perform exploratory or foraging behaviour, gastroenteric disorders and group stress being the most frequent across husbandry systems. Recommendations to improve the welfare of calves include increasing space allowance, keeping calves in stable groups from an early age, ensuring good colostrum management and increasing the amounts of milk fed to dairy calves. In addition, calves should be provided with deformable lying surfaces, water via an open surface and long-cut roughage in racks. Regarding specific recommendations for veal systems, calves should be kept in small groups (2-7 animals) within the first week of life, provided with ~20 m 2 /calf and fed on average 1 kg neutral detergent fibre (NDF) per day, preferably using long-cut hay. Recommendations on cow-calf contact include keeping the calf with the dam for a minimum of 1 day post-partum. Longer contact should progressively be implemented, but research is needed to guide this implementation in practice. The ABMs body condition, carcass condemnations, abomasal lesions, lung lesions, carcass colour and bursa swelling may be collected in slaughterhouses to monitor on-farm welfare but should be complemented with behavioural ABMs collected on farm.

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Effects of whole-day versus half-day cow-calf contact on cows’ and calves’ performance

Zipp,

Knierim

2024

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Effects of twice a day teat bucket feeding compared to twice a day mother suckling on behaviour, health traits and blood immune parameters in dairy calves and immune parameters in cow's milk

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 – Social management

Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 – Social management

Welfare of calves

Effects of whole-day versus half-day cow-calf contact on cows’ and calves’ performance

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