Session 34. Improving neonatal survival

Date: 31 August 2011; 08:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Spoolder

Theatre Session 34

• Bovine neonatal survival - is improvement possible?
  Mee, J.F.
• Effect of acid-base disturbances on perinatal mortality (PM) in dairy cattle
  Szenci, O.
• The morphology of jejunal and ileal Peyer’s Patches and concentrations of serum IgG in hand-reared neonatal calves supplemented with fatty acids
  Kentler, C.A., Babatunde, B.B. and Frankel, T.L.
• Improving neonatal lamb survival
  Fragkou, I.A., Mavrogianni, V.S. and Fthenakis, G.C.
• Organic farrowing conditions as an example for future conventional pig husbandry?
  Vermeer, H.M.
• Maternal investment, sibling competition, and piglet survival – the effects of increased litter size
  Andersen, I.L., Nævdal, E. and Bøe, K.E.
• Neonatal mortality in piglets: genetics to improve behavioural vitality
  Dauberlieu, A., Billon, Y., Bailly, J., Launay, I., Lagant, H., Liaubet, L., Riquet, J., Larzul, C. and Canario, L.
• Effect of essential fatty acid supplementation of sow diets on piglet survival in two farrowing systems
  Adeleye, O.O., Brett, M., Blomfield, D., Guy, J.H. and Edwards, S.A.

Poster Session 34

• Effect of encapsulated calcium butyrate (GREEN-CAB-70 Coated®) on growth parameters in Iranian Holstein female calves
  Karkoodi, K., Nazari, M. and Alizadeh, A.R.