Abstract #359
Section: Animal Health
Session: Animal Health: Transition cow health
Format: Oral
Day/Time: Tuesday 10:45 AM–11:00 AM
Location: Sebastian I-2
Session: Animal Health: Transition cow health
Format: Oral
Day/Time: Tuesday 10:45 AM–11:00 AM
Location: Sebastian I-2
# 359
Early lactation disease incidence in Holstein cows across multiple US regions.
Pablo Pinedo*1,6, Jose Santos2, Gustavo Schuenemann3, Rodrigo Bicalho4, Ricardo Chebel2, Klibs Galvao2, Robert Gilbert4, Sandra Rodrigez-Zas5, Guilherme Rosa6, Christopher Seabury7, John Fetrow8, William Thatcher2, 1Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Amarillo TX, 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 3The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 4Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 5University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 6University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 7Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 8University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN.
Key Words: health, transition, Holstein
Early lactation disease incidence in Holstein cows across multiple US regions.
Pablo Pinedo*1,6, Jose Santos2, Gustavo Schuenemann3, Rodrigo Bicalho4, Ricardo Chebel2, Klibs Galvao2, Robert Gilbert4, Sandra Rodrigez-Zas5, Guilherme Rosa6, Christopher Seabury7, John Fetrow8, William Thatcher2, 1Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Amarillo TX, 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 3The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 4Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 5University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 6University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 7Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 8University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN.
The objective was to assess the incidence of transition cow diseases in Holstein cows (n = 10,959 in 16 herds) calving during the warm (WS: May–Aug) and cool (CS: Oct – Jan) seasons. Cows were enrolled at parturition and monitored weekly for multiple diseases until 60 DIM. Disease included retained fetal membranes (RFM), metritis (MET, 7 ± 3 DIM; foul-smell, watery, brownish vaginal discharge), subclinical ketosis (SKT, 7 ± 3 DIM; serum BHBA >1.0 mmol/L), mastitis (MAS; farm records), left displaced abomasum (LDA), pneumonia (PN; farm records), clinical endometritis (CE 28 ± 3 DIM; from mucopurulent to fetid vaginal discharge) and lameness (LAM 35 ± 3 DIM; score > 3). Study locations included the Northeast (NE; 4 herds), Midwest (MW; 6 herds), Southeast (SE; 1 herd), and the Southwest (SW; 5 herds) regions. Disease incidence was estimated by region and season (top part of Table 1). Associations between disease occurrence and region, calving season, and parity (1, ≥ 2) were tested by logistic regression. The effect of region on disease occurrence was only significant for LAM (P < 0.05). Contrarily, season of calving and parity were significantly associated with the risk of transition diseases in all the disorders analyzed (bottom part of Table 1). This project was funded by USDA-NIFA-AFRI (2013–68004–20361).
Table 1. Incidence (%) of transition cow diseases by region and season of calving (top) and odds ratios for the risk of disease by region, season of calving, and parity (bottom); references are SW, WS, and parity ≥2
| Item | NE | MW | SE | SW | ||||||||
| WS | CS | WS | CS | WS | CS | WS | CS | |||||
| RFM | 8.0 | 5.9 | 7.4 | 5.4 | 15.0 | 7.6 | 4.3 | 2.9 | ||||
| MET | 21.7 | 23.8 | 19.5 | 20.2 | 19.7 | 18.5 | 27.6 | 24.8 | ||||
| SKT | 41.8 | 18.7 | 25.9 | 15.5 | 24.9 | 20.1 | 31.3 | 14.6 | ||||
| MAS | 26.1 | 16.0 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 18.0 | 21.3 | 12.0 | 8.1 | ||||
| LDA | 3.0 | 5.6 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||
| PNM | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 13.4 | 7.1 | 3.5 | ||||
| CLE | 15.4 | 32.5 | 25.9 | 20.4 | 23.4 | 42.9 | 24.3 | 26.1 | ||||
| LAM | 11.3 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 8.1 | 1.7 | 12.1 | 5.4 | 2.0 | ||||
| RFM | MET | SKT | MAS | CLE | LAM | |||||||
| OR | 95%CI | OR | 95%CI | OR | 95%CI | OR | 95%CI | OR | 95%CI | OR | 95%CI | |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| MW | 1.9 | 0.7-5.0 | 0.8 | 0.5-1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2-2.1 | 0.6 | 0.2-2.0 | 1.0 | 0.6-1.7 | 3.7 | 1.3-10.5 |
| NE | 2.4 | 0.8-7.1 | 1.0 | 0.6-1.8 | 1.2 | 0.4-4.3 | 2.4 | 0.8-6.9 | 1.1 | 0.6-2.0 | 0.9 | 0.3-2.5 |
| SE | 4.2 | 0.8-23.0 | 0.8 | 0.3-2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1-7.6 | 2.9 | 0.5-16.3 | 1.7 | 0.7-4.5 | 1.4 | 0.3-6.3 |
| Season | ||||||||||||
| CS | 0.6 | 0.5-0.7 | 1.1 | 1.0-1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3-0.4 | 0.7 | 0.7-0.9 | 1.4 | 1.2-1.5 | 2.5 | 1.8-3.4 |
| Parity | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 0.4 | 0.4-0.5 | 1.8 | 1.6-2.0 | 0.6 | 0.5-0.7 | 1.3 | 1.1-1.5 | 1.1 | 1.0-1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1-0.3 |
Key Words: health, transition, Holstein
