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Responses of young calves, on two levels of feeding, to transportation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. W. Schrama ,
M. J. W. Heetkamp ,
M. W. A. Verstegen ,
W. G. P. Schouten ,
F. van der Veen  and
F. A. Helmond
J. W. Schrama
Affiliation:
Animal Husbandry Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands Animal Nutrition Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
M. J. W. Heetkamp
Affiliation:
Animal Husbandry Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
M. W. A. Verstegen
Affiliation:
Animal Nutrition Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
W. G. P. Schouten
Affiliation:
Animal Husbandry Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
F. van der Veen
Affiliation:
Animal Husbandry Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
F. A. Helmond
Affiliation:
Human and Animal Physiology Department, Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural University Wageningen, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

The effect of transportation on energy metabolism in young calves was assessed at two feeding levels by indirect calorimetry during a 5·5-day experimental period. Twenty-six Holstein-Friesian male calves were assigned in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Calves were fed below or near the maintenance requirements (270 or 420 k) metabolizable energy per kg M0·75 per day). At 5 days of age, 13 calves were transported. The applied transportation procedure was aimed to mimic common transport of young calves. The other 13 calves were controls. Metabolizability of dietary energy was low (0·808), but similar for control and transported calves. Despite the similar salivary cortisol concentrations after transportation, heat production was higher by 23 kJ/kg M0·75 per day in transported than in control calves. Calves were not in a steady-state regarding their energy metabolism. Heat production decreased with time. Both transportation and feeding level influenced the decline in heat production with time. Only during the first 3 days after transportation was heat production enhanced, suggesting a relatively short-term effect of transportation in young calves. The impact of transportation on heat production and time related alterations in heat production were not related to the calfs activity.

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calvesenergy metabolismhydrocortisonestresstransport
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , August 1996 , pp. 79 - 89
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1996

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