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Cattle Transport

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2022) | Viewed by 2966

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kirstin Dahl-Pedersen

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Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: animal transport; animal law; dairy cow welfare; cull cows; assessment of fitness for transport
Dr. Nina Dam Otten

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Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: animal welfare; production animals; dairy cattle; veterinary jurisprudence; implementation and surveillance; epidemiology; respiratory diseases

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Millions of cattle are transported each year as an integral part of the global dairy and meat industry. Transport can be thought of as a long chain of stressful events, and several studies have shown that transport can have a negative impact on the clinical condition, health, and welfare of cattle due to a variety of factors. Legislation and guidelines from around the world specify that cattle must be ‘fit for transport’. However, what precisely constitutes a ‘fit’ animal and how to assess fitness are vaguely defined. In order to secure animal welfare during and after transport, it is essential to gain a better understanding of the complex interaction between the clinical condition of the animal prior to transport and the risk factors connected to the transport itself.

We invite original research papers that address any aspects of cattle transport for this Special Issue. Topics of special interest are how transport affects cull cows, pregnant heifers, and unweaned calves in terms of welfare, clinical conditions, behavior, and physiology. These types of cattle might be considered particularly vulnerable, with a reduced ability to cope with the strains of transport because of their clinical conditions, especially during long-distance transport. Additional topics of interest may include methods to improve the assessment of animal fitness for transport and different aspects of animal law related to transport.

Dr. Kirstin Dahl-Pedersen
Dr. Nina Dam Otten
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Transport Welfare
  • Clinical condition
  • Un-weaned calves
  • Pregnant heifers
  • Cull cows
  • Fitness for transport
  • Animal law

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Small RNA-Seq Analysis Reveals miRNA Expression of Short Distance Transportation Stress in Beef Cattle Blood
by Mingli Wu, Xiaoqin Tang, Sayed Haidar Abbas Raza, Haidong Zhao, Qi Li, Xiaohua Yi, Fayez Althobaiti, Mustafa Shukry and Xiuzhu Sun
Animals 2021, 11(10), 2850; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11102850 - 29 Sep 2021
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Transportation is a crucial phase in the beef cattle industry, and the annual losses caused by beef cattle transport stress are substantial. Because of its huge economic losses, such as lower growth rate and even death, long-distance transportation stress has attracted more attention [...] Read more.
Transportation is a crucial phase in the beef cattle industry, and the annual losses caused by beef cattle transport stress are substantial. Because of its huge economic losses, such as lower growth rate and even death, long-distance transportation stress has attracted more attention from beef production practitioners because of its huge economic losses. Compared with the long-distance transportation stress, the short-distance transportation stress was ignored for the reason of no obvious symptoms in cattle. Our previous study showed that the disorder of B cell function could be a potential health risk after short-distance transportation. However, the transcriptome details of the changes in the cattle blood after short-distance transportation and the molecular mechanisms for the regulation of the developmental process are not clearly known. In this study, a total of 10 Qinchuan cattle were used to compare the molecular characteristics of blood before and after short-distance transportation. The miRNA-seq showed that 114 differentially expressed miRNAs (DEMs) were found (40 upregulated and 74 downregulated) between two groups before and after transportation. Furthermore, more than 90% of the miRNAs with counts of more than 10 were used to construct a co-expression network by weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA), and four independent modules were identified. According to their relationship with 30 hub genes, the turquoise module was the key module in this study. The regulator network of hub genes and miRNAs in the turquoise module was constructed by miRNAs targeting genes predicting, and the miRNAs had targeting sites within hub genes that could be identified as hub-miRNAs. Further, it showed that CD40 and ITPKB had the same targeting miRNAs (miR-339a/b), and the newly discovered hub miRNAs filled the gaps in our previous study about the relationship between hub genes in short-distance transportation stress and provided the potential utility for predicting and treatment of short-distance transportation stress in beef cattle. Full article
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