abstract

• Herbal formulas supplemented have improved the health of ruminants. Our objectives were to determine the effects of supplemental Indian polyherbal phytogenic sources (IndPPs) on the growth performance, blood chemistry, blood cells, and antibody amounts of dairy calves. Forty Holstein calves (Initial BW 45.8 ± 7.2 kg) were randomly assigned to treatments: 0, 1, 2, and 3 gd-1 of IndPPs. The herbal supplement was characterized by GC-MS analysis. The calves treated with IndPPs additive did not affect the average productive variable involved in growth. The use of IndPPs linearly reduces the blood serum biochemistry glucose (P < 0.01) but linearly increases the blood serum concentration of protein, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, and antibody concentrations (P < 0.05). On blood cells from calves, supplementation with IndPPs linearly increases the concentrations of hematocrit, hemoglobin, and erythrocytes (P < 0.05). These results were attributed to the IndPPs containing bioactive substances with phytogenic properties. © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

authors

• Cifuentes-López R.O.
• García López Juan Carlos
• Hernández-García P.A.
• Lee Rangel Héctor Aaron
• Mendoza G.
• Roque-Jiménez J.A.
• Vázquez-Valladolid A.

publication date

• 2022-01-01

published in

• Food and Agricultural Immunology  Journal

keywords

• antibody; Calves; health; phytogenic; polyherbal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/09540105.2021.2024150

PubMed ID

start page

• 97

end page

• 112

volume

• 33

issue

• 1