Assessing the standard of health and welfare in individual categories of cattle from the viewpoint of intravital pathological changes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/10/12/619" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/10/12/619</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10120619" target="_blank" >10.3390/agriculture10120619</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing the standard of health and welfare in individual categories of cattle from the viewpoint of intravital pathological changes

Original language description

The standard of the health and welfare of individual categories of cattle was assessed from the viewpoint of intravital pathological changes. The results of veterinary inspections of 2,514,666 head of cattle (1,136,754 cows, 257,912 heifers, 1,015,541 bulls and 104,459 calves) slaughtered in the Czech Republic in the period from 2010 to 2019 were analyzed. The results show significant differences (p &lt; 0.01) between the categories of cattle in the total numbers of intravital findings. Intravital findings were most frequently recorded in cows (index 2.271) and least frequently recorded in bulls (index 0.479). In all categories of cattle, chronic findings predominated, where the largest number was recorded in cows (index 1.740) and calves (index 0.910). Parasitic and traumatic findings were only detected in low numbers in all categories of cattle. Assessment of the trend in the total number of intravital pathological findings in individual categories of cattle in the monitored period showed an evident fall in heifers (rSp = ?0.915, p &lt; 0.01), cows (rSp = ?0.806, p &lt; 0.01) and bulls (rSp = ?0.636, p &lt; 0.05). In calves, no decreasing trend was found (rSp = ?0.382, p &gt; 0.05). The results obtained in this study do not merely reflect the standard of health of the animals slaughtered at abattoirs in the Czech Republic, but also provide a picture of the standard of the living conditions provided by farmers rearing individual categories of cattle. ? 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Agriculture-Basel

ISSN

2077-0472

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000601820900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097411128