Influence of Calf Weaning at Birth on Reproductive Performance of Murrah Buffaloes

Does calf-mother contact during heat stress period affect physiology and performance in buffaloes?

“…This shows that on average 600 gm more milk was obtained in FCC-HSP than FCC group. Similar findings were reported by Kumar [11], Ahmad et al [18] and Savaliya et al [26] in Murrah, Nili-Ravi, Jaffarawadi buffaloes during summer season. They reported that when a time-controlled fan and fogging system is installed in the housing, milk yield increased as compared to control group with no modification in housing.…”

“…However, this social interaction is broken in the commercial and organized dairy farming system when shortly after the birth calves are weaned from their mothers. Outcome of this is increased stress, decreased productivity, and abnormal behaviour in both mothers and calves [11]. Allowing fence line interaction between the dam and the offspring lowers the stress reaction to weaning compared to remote separation [12].…”

Dietary Supplementary of Modified Si-jun-zi Granule Promotes Intestinal Development and Enhances Mucosal Immunity of Weaned Rex Rabbits

“…In general, it will take three months for natural weaning in Rex rabbits breeding. Early weaning is a commonly used practice to ensure pro t maximization by shorten dams reproductive cycle (Kumar et al, 2017), after which diarrhoea and even death is often happened to induce important economic losses (Richter et al, 2017; Yarnall and Thrus eld, 2017)due to underdevelopment of digestive system and relatively low immunity (Vicario et al, 2015), especially in which food can not satis ed the requirements of nutrition (Zhu et al, 2015). The intestinal development is closely related to the permeability and nutrition absorption (Wood et al, 2015).…”