Baa's and Bleat's - The AASRP Podcast
This podcast is sponsored by the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners. In Season 1, host Dr. Michelle Buckley from Iowa State University will explore dairy goat production by providing insights on improving milk quality and antimicrobial stewardship. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of dairy goat production with guest speakers ranging from veterinarians to farm managers. Questions can be directed to DairyGoatExtension@iastate.edu.Season 1 is also supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Antimicrobial Resistance grant number: 2020-04197. Listeners are encouraged to write to DairyGoatExtension@iastate.edu with questions that were sparked by previous episodes for our content experts to discuss.
Baa's and Bleat's - The AASRP Podcast
Contemplating Colostrum with Robert Van Saun
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The American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners (AASRP)
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Season 3
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Episode 2
Join us for this discussion about colostrum evaluations and benchmarking Dr. Robert VanSaun from Pennsylvania State University. This episode covers IgG concentration, evaluating passive transfer, heat treatment of colostrum, and remaining knowledge gaps in the world of small ruminant colostrum.
Today's episode references several papers including:
- Dr. VanSaun's Proceedings from the AABP 55th Annual Conference regarding colostrum in lambs and kids (2022): https://bovine-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/AABP/article/view/8638
- Dr. VanSaun's Proceedings from the AABP 45th Annual Conference regarding pregnancy toxemia diagnostics (2012): https://bovine-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/AABP/article/view/3888
Consensus recommendations on calf- and herd-level passive immunity in dairy calves in the United States: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030220303830
Heat treatment of colostrum increases immunoglobulin G absorption efficiency in high-, medium-, and low-quality colostrum: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030214000939
Heat-treated (in single aliquot or batch) colostrum outperforms non-heat-treated colostrum in terms of quality and transfer of immunoglobulin G in neonatal Jersey calves: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030215000181
- Temporal kinetics of bovine mammary IgG secretion into colostrum and transition milk: https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/5/skab083/6170618
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