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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 54 No. 2 252-257
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Ethanol Intoxication in Calves Fed Certain Milk Replacers1,2,

R. K. Abe3, J. L. Morrill, R. Bassette and F. W. Oehme

Departments of Dairy and Poultry Science, and Surgery and Medicine, Kansas State Univeristy, Manhattan 66502

ABSTRACT

A condition is described in young calves which is caused by fermentation of dietary carbohydrate to ethanol and characterized by high plasma ethanol, depression, poor body coordination, anorexia, and an unusual odor of exhaled air. Incidence of the condition in one experiment was high when calves were fed rations containing glucose or gelatinized starch plus an amyloglucosidase. Plasma ethanol concentrations were correlated with fecal yeast counts (r = 0.76).

No calves fed milk or milk with added lactose had high plasma ethanol, but the condition did occur when the diet was milk with added starch plus enzyme. Analyses of digesta from various parts of the gastrointestinal tracts of calves with high plasma ethanol indicated that the abomasum was probably the site of most active alcoholic fermentation. Ethanol administered either orally or into intestinal flstulae was rapidly absorbed.

The condition was not observed in calves fed all-milk-product milk replacers, but moderate plasma ethanol levels were observed in a few calves fed milk replacers containing starch.

FOOTNOTES

1 Contribution 773, Department of Dairy and Poultry Science, and 95, Department of Surgery and Medicine, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan.

2 Partially supported by funds from Farmland Industries, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.

3 Present address: The Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, Georgia.






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