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| Author(s): |
Carlos Humberto Corassin
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2004-04-01 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Fernando Machado;
Wilson Roberto Soares Mattos;
Aleksandrs Spers;
Ivanete Susin;
José Luiz Moraes Vasconcelos
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| Advisor: | Paulo Fernando Machado |
| Abstract | |
These studies evaluate health and reproductive factors affecting dairy cows productivity. Through correlation studies were evaluated health occurrences and risk factors during peripartum for milk production at peak, after 305 days of lactation and conception failures on first service pos-partum (CFS). Using a commercial herd of "dairy holsteins cows" located in São Paulo state - Brazil, data were collect in 2001 and 2002. On the first study were used 15,613 observations, the statistical analyses data were processed on logistic regression and multiple regression analyses. The analyses showed that peripartum diseases and risk factors directly affected milk production, with different effects based on lactations times, requesting extra care on prophylactics to avoid diseases and improve milk production. On the second study were used 13,594 observations, the statistical analyses data were processed on logistic regression calculating chances ratio on risk factors isolation and risk factors association to success or failure on first service pos-partum. Results indicated as mainly risks factors: lactation times, year period that first service occurred, peripartum diseases, body score condition (BSC), milk protein and fat ratio (PFR). First lactation animals presented more chance of success to the first service than multiparous. Cows inseminated during winter time showed 5 times more chances of CFS than ones inseminated on summer time. Animals with peripartum diseases had less conception success than healthy ones. Cows with better rumminal condition (FPR) had a much better conception than ones with lower FPR. The correct BSC on different productive steps (dry-off, calving and breeding) showed to be an important tool to identify animals with higher risks of failure on first service conception. (AU) | |