Open AccessEfficacy of propylene glycol on prevention and treatment of ketosis for dairy cows in lactation stage
Author(s) -
Hải Thủy Nguyễn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of agriculture and development/the journal of agriculture and develoment/nông nghiệp và phát triển
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2615-949X
pISSN - 2615-9503
DOI - 10.52997/jad.4.02.2020
Subject(s) - ketosis , zoology , medicine , lactation , chemistry , randomized block design , dairy cattle , ketone bodies , endocrinology , diabetes mellitus , pregnancy , metabolism , biology , genetics , horticulture
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of propylene glycol (PG) on prevention and treatment of ketosis in dairy cows from 09/2018 to 03/2019. The study consisted of 2 experiments using a total of 126 multiparous dairy cows in a HF crossbred herd. Cows in both experiments were randomly assigned to treatments in a randomized complete block design. In Exp. 1, 96 cows without ketosis disease (BHBA 0.05).