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OJVRTM
Online Journal of
Veterinary Research©
Volume 19(11): 769-775, 2015.
Effect of selenium and vitamin E administration to pregnant cows
on offspring
weight, colostrum and serum IgG levels.
Mohammad Amiri Andi, Farzad Fallah.
Department of Animal Science, Sanandej Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
ABSTRACT
Amiri Andi M, Fallah F., Effect of selenium and vitamin E
administration to pregnant cows on offspring weight, colostrum and serum IgG
levels, Onl J Vet Res., 19(11): 769-775, 2015. Three groups of 20 pregnant Holstein cows each were supplemented or
injected 8g vitamin E with or without selenium 21 days before partus. IgG
colostrum levels were higher in calves born from cows supplemented oral or injectable vitamin E with selenium. Calves born from
cows fed oral vitamin E had highest colostrum IgG levels and weaning weights
compared with those given other treatments. Treatments had no significant
effect on cows or calves IgG serum levels at 7d age, weight at birth, or later.
Results suggest that oral vitamin E may have had an effect on IgG levels in
colostrum and weaning weight of calves. Results were not compared with
untreated controls and must be evaluated in this context.
Key
words: Vitamin E, selenium, close up,
immunoglobulin G, calves, colostrum.
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