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SUBMITTER: Silva FLM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8001325 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva Fernanda Lavinia Moura FLM Miqueo Evangelina E Silva Marcos Donizete da MDD Torrezan Thaís Manzoni TM Rocha Nathalia Brito NB Salles Márcia Saladini Vieira MSV Bittar Carla Maris Machado CMM
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20210305 3
This study investigates the newborn thermoregulatory responses to cold and the performance of calves fed different colostrum volumes. Thirty newborn Holstein calves were blocked by birth body weight (BW; 39.4 ± 6.5 kg) and fed different high-quality colostrum volumes: 10%, 15%, or 20% of BW, which was split and fed at 2 and 8 h after birth. At 24 h of life, calves were placed in a chamber at 10 °C for 150 min. Skin and rectal temperature (RT), heart and respiratory rate, and shivering were measu ...[more]