Impact of plane of nutrition and analgesic treatment on wound healing and pain following cautery disbudding in preweaned dairy calves

Authors

  • C. N. Reedman Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
  • T. F. Duffield Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
  • T. J. DeVries Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CAN, N1G 2W1
  • K. D. Lissemore Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
  • S. Adcock Center for Animal Welfare, Dept. of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
  • C. Tucker Center for Animal Welfare, Dept. of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
  • S. Parson Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CAN, N1G 2W1
  • C. B. Winder Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro20228668

Abstract

Nutrition has been reported to be a crucial part of the wound healing process in humans as malnutrition has been well-doc­umented to impede wound healing; however, this has not been evaluated in disbudding wounds in calves. Although it is be­coming more common to feed an increased nutritional plane to young dairy calves, 33% of Canadian producers in a 2015 survey were still feeding calves low levels of milk (< 6 L/d). The objec­tive of this study was to determine the impact of a biologically normal plane of nutrition compared to a limited plane on the primary outcome wound healing, and one dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) compared to 2 on the second­ary outcomes: lying behaviour, haptoglobin concentrations, and mechanical nociceptive threshold (MNT) in calves disbud­ded via cautery iron.

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Published

2023-07-17

Issue

No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings

Section

Research Summaries

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