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Giraldo Arana, D., & Uribe Velásquez, L. F. (2012). Strategies to improve postpartum body condition in beef cattle. Biosalud, 11(1), 71–89. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/biosalud/article/view/4733
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The aim of this review is to describe the effect of nutritional and management strategies on body condition and postpartum reproductive and productive performance in beef cattle. Beef cattle experience a negative energy balance during postpartum, losing body condition. Follicular development, pregnancy rate, fertility, intervals from labor-first estrus, labor-conception and labor interval are superior in cows with moderate body condition during postpartum compared to thin cows. Supplementation with long chain polyunsaturated lipids, allows earlier resumption of ovarian cyclicity, regardless their energetic contribution. Protein supplementation helps to maintain or improve body condition during postpartum, maximizing the ruminal environment and animal digestive efficiency. Early weaning and restricted sucking have been used in extensive breeding systems, since the implementation of such strategies is relatively easy. These activities have effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian and reduce milk production thus allowing the improvement of body condition and the restarting of ovarian activity, also optimizing the results of treatments with progestogens when they are used alternately. In conclusion, appropriate postpartum body condition is essential in order to ensure the reproductive performance of beef cattle. The use of lipid and protein supplementation during postpartum improves body condition and optimizes the reproductive performance of beef cattle. Management strategies such as early weaning are effective, but their use is restricted only when nutritional sources are scarce or the application of nutritional strategies is not possible.
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Bishop DK, Wettemann RP. Pulsatil infusión of gonadotropin-releasing hormone initiates luteal activity in nutritionally anestrous beef cows. J Anim Sci 1993; 71:2714-20.
Vizcarra JA, Wettemann RP, Braden TD, Turzillo AM, Nett TM. Effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse frequency on serum and pituitary concentrations of luteinizing hormone and folliclestimulating hormone, GnRH receptors, and messenger ribonucleic acid for gonadotropin subunits in cows. Endocrinology 1997; 138(2).
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Santos JEP, Bilby TR, Thatcher WW, Staples CR, Silvestre. Long chain fatty acids of diets as factors influencing reproduction in cattle. Reprod Dom Anim 2008; 43(2):23-30.
Hess BW, Moss GE, Rule DC. A decade of developments in the area of fat supplementation research with beef cattle and sheep. J Anim Sci 2008; 86:E188-E204.
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Bottger JD, Hess BW, Alexander BM, Hixon DL, Woodard LF, Funston RN, et al. Effects of supplementation with high linoleic or oleic cracked safflower seeds on postpartum reproduction and calf performance of primiparous beef heifers. J Anim Sci 2002; 80:2023-30.
Lake SL, Weston TR, Scholljegerdes EJ, Murrieta CM, Alexander BM, Rule GE, et al. Effects of postpartum dietary fat and body condition score at parturition on plasma, adipose tissue, and milk fatty acid composition of lactating beef cows. J Anim Sci 2007; 85:717-30.
Araujo DB, Cooke RF, Hansen GR, Staples CR, Arthington JD. Effects of rumen-protected polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on performance and physiological responses of growing cattle after transportation and feedlot entry. J Anim Sci 2010; 88:4120-32.
Cooke RF, Bohnert DW, Moriel P, Hess BW, Mills RR. Effects of polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on ruminal in situ forage degradability, performance, and physiological responses of feeder cattle. J Anim Sci 2011; 89:3677-89.
Darckley JK, Klusmeyer TH, Trusk AM, Clark JH. Infusion of long-chain fatty acids varying in saturation and chain length into the abomasum of lactating dairy cows. J Dairy Sci 1992; 75:1517-26.
Allen M. Effects of diet on short-term regulation of feed intake by lactating cattle. J Dairy Sci 2000; 83:1598-624.
Onetti SG, Grummer RR. Response of lactating cows to three supplemental fat sources as affected by forage in the diet and stage of lactation a meta-analysis of literature. Anim Feed Sci Technol 2004; 115:65-82.
Bauman DE, Griinari JM. Regulation and nutritional manipulation of milk fat low-fat milk syndrome. Livest Prod Sci 2001; 70:15-29.
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Encinias AM, Lardy GP, Leupp JL, Encinias HB, Reynolds LP, Caton JS. Efficacy of using a combination of rendered protein products as an undegradable intake protein supplement for lactating, wintercalving, beef cows fed bromegrass hay. J Anim Sci 2005; 83:187-95.
NRC. Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle. 7th rev. ed. Washington, DC: Natl. Acad. Press; 1996.
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