PERIPARTURIENT METABOLIC PROFILE, BLOOD PICTURE AND BODY CONDITION SCORE IN HEALTHY AND COWS WITH ASSOCIATED PERIPARTURIENT DISEASE

Experiment included 39 cows, 15 healthy and 24 diseased. Ketosis was diagnosed in 13 out of 24 diseased cows, and it was combined with mastitis and metritis (in 10 cows) and displaced abomasum (in 3 cows). The combination of diseases consisting of placenta retention and metritis was present in 8 cows, whereas the combination of displaced abomasum and lameness
was present in 3 cows. The cows with associated peripartal diseases have significantly higher concentration of NEFA, BHB, bilirubin, AST and the number of neutrophils in the four weeks postpartum. The concentration of glucose, albumin, urea, calcium, cholesterol was lower in the diseased cows. The hematologic profile of the sick cows was characterized by a decreased number of erythrocytes and lymphocytes with a decrease in the concentration of hemoglobin. A total number of lymphocytes in the diseased cows was lower a week after the calving, but subsequently it considerably increased, exceeding the number determined in the healthy cows. The body condition of the diseased cows significantly declines, exceeding 0.7 of measure unit in the first month whereas the decline of body condition of healthy cows is not so noticeable with the amount of 0.4 of measure unit. In the group of sick cows was found significantly higher proportion of cows that had values of metabolic and hematological profile outside the normal values and that had a significant loss of body condition in early lactation. Cows with associated periparturient disease showed worst adaptation capacity in early lactation which is reflected in metabolic profile, blood pictures and loss in body condition score.