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Effect of Transportation and Husbandry on Humoral Immune Responses in Suckler Calves.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

A. M. Mackenzie ,
M. Drennan ,
T. G. Rowan ,
S. D. Carter ,
J. B. Dixon  and
J. Tebble
A. M. Mackenzie
Affiliation:
Departments of Veterinary Pathology Departments of Animal Husbandry
M. Drennan
Affiliation:
Teagasc, Grange Research Centre, Eire.
T. G. Rowan
Affiliation:
Departments of Animal Husbandry
S. D. Carter
Affiliation:
Departments of Veterinary Pathology Departments of Veterinary Clinical Science, University of Liverpool, UK
J. B. Dixon
Affiliation:
Departments of Veterinary Pathology
J. Tebble
Affiliation:
Departments of Animal Husbandry
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The trade between European community (EC) countries involving the transportation of live calves has, with the advent of 1993, considerably increased. In the UK alone, thousands of calves are transported on lorries and ferries and exported to other EC countries each year. An increase in the incidence of ‘shipping fever’, the general classification in American feedlots for bacterial or viral respiratory infections in cattle, has been observed following transportation. Further observations have shown an increased disease susceptibility following transportation and research has suggested that this is due to immunosuppression. An experiment was designed to investigate the effects of transportation and other normal husbandry variables on their ability to mount antibody responses to a specific antigen in suckler calves.

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Assessing Animal Welfare
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 77
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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