Timpanismo em vacas leiteiras: revisão bibliográfica

• Autor(a) principal: Thomé, Vitor Augusto Pimentel
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/216999
• topic: Bovino de leite; Digestão; Fermentação; Ruminantes alimentação e rações; Confinamento (animais).

With the growth of milk production in the country, the constant increase in demand for milk in the Brazilian market is increasingly observed. In response, the administration of a high-grain diet implemented in a specialized system of dairy herds has been the solution to meet the energy needs of lactating animals and, consequently, maintain milk production at a high level. However, the erroneous management of this diet, being often administered excessively by the keeper or by providing the animal freely in the trough, brought an increase in the percentage of metabolic disorders (among them the different types of bloat) resulting from irregularity in shape administration of grains in the diet, generating a drop in economic return for the producer, due to expenditure on treatments and the drop in milk production by the affected animals. Thus, the present work aimed to study bloat in dairy cows, factors that predispose it, strategies to prevent it and how to treat it. Therefore, the literature review methodology based mainly on scientific articles was used. Given the above, it is concluded that the best strategy to maintain high production rates, without the impacts of bloat, is to prevent animals from being affected, avoiding the use of diets with excess grain and deficient in fiber, as well as excessive grinding of the grains in addition to the care in the use of leguminous hay.