Effects of Zinc Oxide on Growth Performance, Immune Function and Rectal Microflora of Neonatal Dairy Calves

WEI Jingya, MA Fengtao, SHAN Qiang, SUN Peng

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2019.06.030

Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition >

2019 , Vol. 31 >Issue 6: 2693 - 2700

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2019.06.030

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Effects of Zinc Oxide on Growth Performance, Immune Function and Rectal Microflora of Neonatal Dairy Calves

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State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

Received date: 2018-11-12

Online published: 2019-06-17

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This experiment was conducted to study the effects of zinc oxide on growth performance, immune function and rectal microflora of neonatal dairy calves. Twenty-four neonatal Holstein dairy calves were randomly allotted to four groups with 6 calves per group (2 males and 4 females). Calves in the control group (Zn-0 group) were fed only milk and starter diet; calves in experimental groups were fed milk and starter diet supplemented with 40 (Zn-40 group), 80 (Zn-80 group) and 120 mg zinc oxide (Zn-120 group) (as zinc) everyday, respectively. The trial lasted for 14 days. The results showed that different levels of zinc oxide had no significant effect on the average daily gain, milk intake, starter intake, total feed intake and feed to gain ratio of calves (P>0.05). Compared with the control group, the diarrhea rate of experimental groups was reduced, but the difference was not significant (P>0.05). With the dietary zinc oxide supplemental level increased, the contents of immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin A in serum of experimental groups were linearly increased (P<0.05), the rectal Lactobacillus content was linearly increased (P<0.05), and the rectal Escherichia coli content was tended to decrease linearly (0.05 ≤ P<0.10). In conclusion, different levels of zinc oxide have no effects on the growth performance and the diarrhea rate of neonatal dairy calves. However, compared with the control group, the serum immunoglobulin contents and rectal Lactobacillus content of experimental groups are increased, and rectal Escherichia coli content is decreased.

Key words： dairy calves; zinc oxide; growth performance; diarrhea; immune function; rectal microflora

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WEI Jingya, MA Fengtao, SHAN Qiang, SUN Peng . Effects of Zinc Oxide on Growth Performance, Immune Function and Rectal Microflora of Neonatal Dairy Calves[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2019 , 31(6) : 2693 -2700 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2019.06.030

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