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- Title
Water Quality, Essential Condition Sustaining the Health, Production and Reproduction in Cattle. A Review.
- Authors
EL MAHDY, Cristina; BOARU, Anca; POPESCU, Silvana; BORDA, Cristin
- Abstract
The main component of the body: the water, alongside with many function which it has represents a constituent in the diet of animal. There are many and various factors that influence the daily water requirements of animals: some dependent on animal, and others dependent on the environment. The water quality administered to livestock must meet the requirements for potability, prerequisite to maintaining the health, externalization full productive potential and sustaining breeding. Knowing the importance of water quality consists in the negative action which can exert on the body to exceeding certain thresholds translated through: reducing water consumption simultaneously with the decrease of milk production, decreased feed conversion rate and average daily gain, degradation of health status by reducing the local resistance, decrease overall body resistance, metabolic, digestive, skeletal disorders and impaired reproduction sphere translated through: decreasing fertility, abortions; elements interfering with the absorption of other essential water body, producing chronic or acute poisoning. The water composition plays essential role depending on which is supplemented or not as the case in quantity of the macro and trace minerals from feeding stuff according to the synergism or antagonism action between the minerals present.
- Subjects
CATTLE reproduction; CATTLE productivity; CATTLE feeding &; feeds; WATER requirements of cattle; WATER quality; METABOLISM; CATTLE
- Publication
Bulletin of the University of Agricultural Sciences & Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Animal Science & Biotechnologies, 2016, Vol 73, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1843-5262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15835/buasvmcn-asb:12156