Abstract
Nutritional management of dairy cows during the dry period influences risk of peripartum disease. Means of rapidly monitoring nutritional status and the effectiveness of prepartum diets, prior to the development of disease, are needed by the dairy industry. Plasma nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) concentration is a potential means of monitoring energy status in late gestation cows. High plasma NEFA concentration is associated positively with the incidence of peripartum disease dairy cows.1,3 The objective of this project was to determine, via multivariate analysis, the relationship between prepartum plasma NEFA concentration and risk of retained placenta (RP) in dairy cows.
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