Implicaciones sanitarias del manejo del calostro en el ganado caprino
- Paterna Morán, Ana María
- Gómez Martín, Ángel
- Amores Iniesta, Joaquín
- Prats van der Ham, Miranda
- Tatay Dualde, Juan
- Corrales Romero, Juan Carlos
- Fe Rodríguez, David Christian de la
- Contreras de Vera, Antonio
- Sánchez López, Antonio
ISSN: 0213-5434, 1989-1784
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 29
Pages: 23-37
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de veterinaria de Murcia
Abstract
Colostrum represents the first source of immunity for the ruminants, and thus determines its resistance to disease during the first hours of life. However, colostrum intake could be itself the way of transmition of several diseases, as paratuberculosis, caprine arthritis-encephalytis, or micoplasmosis like contagious agalactia. This risk could be avoided by means of an artificial rearing program which should include correct management practices for colostrum. Between them, the treatment of colostrum represents a critical point. In this sense, thermic treatments have been used to higienitize colostrum, showing different results about microorganism viability. Nevertheless, it should be considered the negative effect of these treatments over nutritional components of colostrum, particularly the loss of immunoglobulines. As an alternative to thermic treatments, there have been experimentally assayed other methods as the addition of sodium dodecyl sulphate, which inactivates AIDS virus in breast milk, and others as liophilization or high pression methods. In this works, apart from the effect of the treatment should be also taken into account its economical viability and on-farm feasibility.