Associate Professor, Department of Non-Infectious Diseases, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės str. 18, Kaunas, Lithuania
Online published on 6 March, 2017.
The objective of the research was to determine the relation of the reticulorumen and vaginal temperature and pH, and rectal temperature during the period after calving.
The pH and temperature of the contents of cows reticulorumens and uterus were measured using specific smaXtec boluses manufactured for animal care. The data of 40 cows were taken 10 days, three times a day (9 AM, 12 AM and 9 PM).
with an increasing reticulorumen content temperature, the rectal and vaginal tmperatures increases as well. With an increasing of the reticulorumen content pH, the vaginal pH increases as well.
the computerized measurement of reticulorumen temperature allows the evaluation of temperature changes in the rectum and the vagina. Reticulorumen pH may indicate changes in the pH of the vagina.
Cow, reticulorumen, ph, temperature
