Abstract
Biannual vaccination of the cattle with inactivated foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine is the control strategy in endemic countries. Reduction in the milk yield is one of the main reasons for poor compliance of the cattle owners to FMD vaccination. As it can adversely affect the herd immunity, the present study aimed to quantify the losses in the milk yield post-FMD vaccination. Retrospective data on the milk yield (kg) recordings, days in milk, parity, and age at vaccination of the Deoni and crossbred cows were collected from 10 days before (−10) to 10 days after (+10) FMD vaccination (dpv). Days in milk were categorized into three stages of lactation for Deoni and crossbred cows. Age (month) was categorized into four classes. Least squares means of the milk yield were generated after adjusting for year, age, parity, and stage of lactation. Based on exploratory data analysis, the corrected milk yield records from −2 to +2 dpv for 5 years comprising 614 data points on Deoni cows (n=54) and 488 data points on crossbred cows (n=55) were used for the final analysis. Because of the correlated errors on the corrected milk yield, linear mixed model ANOVA was done by fitting dpv as fixed effect and cow as random effect, and the results revealed the effect of dpv was non-significant (P>0.05) in either breed. With respect to dpv 0, a marginal reduction of 90 g in the corrected milk yield in the Deoni cow was recorded on dpv 1, while the reduction was about 360 g on dpv 0 as compared dpv −1 in the crossbred cow. It was concluded that FMD vaccination caused a transient non-significant reduction in the milk yield in the Deoni and crossbred cows.
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The data sets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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The authors thank the Director, ICAR-IVRI and NDRI, for facilitating the work. The assistance of Dr Muralidhar Yegireddy, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Veterinary Science, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, 517502, and Mr Kiran Kumar, stockman, in data collection, entry, and collation entry is acknowledged.
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The work was supported by an intramural grant (IXX15232) to the first author.
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Krishnaswamy, N., Jeyakumar, S., Selvan, R.P.T. et al. Short-term effect of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccination on the milk yield in the Deoni and crossbred cows. Trop Anim Health Prod 53, 217 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-021-02653-y
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