Abstract
Nutrition has been reported to be a crucial part of the wound healing process in humans as malnutrition has been well-documented to impede wound healing; however, this has not been evaluated in disbudding wounds in calves. Although it is becoming more common to feed an increased nutritional plane to young dairy calves, 33% of Canadian producers in a 2015 survey were still feeding calves low levels of milk (< 6 L/d). The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a biologically normal plane of nutrition compared to a limited plane on the primary outcome wound healing, and one dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) compared to 2 on the secondary outcomes: lying behaviour, haptoglobin concentrations, and mechanical nociceptive threshold (MNT) in calves disbudded via cautery iron.
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