Performance of dairy cows facing suspected mycotoxin problems

Excellent article about Mycotoxin in dairy cows express clear indicators certain parameters

I really appreciate the effort of the author for this article about Mycotoxin in dairy cows, in my opinion, how ever the study results could have been more appropriate if it could have conveyed the trial herd's average Days in milk(DIM) and same parity for the uniformity of the production changes.

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Good piece of information about Mycotoxin in dairy cows. It is established fact that metabolites of AFBI is sever problem for herdman and processors. I am wondering how are able to fix the batch vatiation of raw materials, the important thing in such trial is what is feed formulation and ingrdients being used. we all need to develop proper protocol otherwise there are N number of factors affecting the final results. Appriciate author initiative.

Dear,

Thank you comments. As you mentioned, it is particularly difficult to evaluate Mycotoxin in dairy cows.
Nowadays, when the main diseases / disorders have been excluded in farm, and still problems of production are present, we are now convinced that mycotoxins are involved and not only aflatoxins ! These first results are confirmed every days when T5X is selling to dairy cows farmers.

Staying at your disposal
Erwan LEROUX
T5X product manager, NEOVIA

Dear Mr Sujay,

I don't know the productive context in India. Nowadays, from what i know, I will try to answer you on my best way…

If you look on the scientific literature, it is very difficult to have a biochemical marker when speaking about mycotoxins. In fact, for each one mycotoxin in dairy cows (I am not speaking about mycotoxin family but clearly about each molecule) it has to be found one biomarker for EACH species.
Today some biomarkers have been identified for some mycotoxins and only for poultry species and pigs (plus lab animals such as mouse, rat…). But for ruminants the scientists did not found right now such markers in order to follow the health of the animals regarding mycotoxin(s).
Then, as you know, ruminants have four intestines, at the difference of monogastrics. If a diet change is applied to monogastrics, in few hours the results can be observed into the blood of the animals. This is not the case for ruminants, when the rumine will buffered the diet change, and the blood changing will appear few days even few weeks after.

So from my experience, I can not advise you to follow especially some biomarkers for ruminants due to the lack of scientific publication on it. And if you want to observe the effects of anti-mycotoxin solutions, you have to follow the zootechnical parameters (daily milk production, protein and fat milk content, somatic cell counts, reproductive parameters…) for at least 2 weeks before to observe some changings.

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