Indirect effect of various treatment regimens for dry cows with genital mycoplasmosis on their offspring

In the current political and economic conditions, ensuring the country's food security comes to the fore. Animal husbandry is an important component of food security, as a source of supply of diverse and highquality food products to the population. The effective development of this industry is impossible without the introduction of intensive technologies, the element of which is to maintain a high level of productivity and animal health. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to steadily reduce the incidence of infectious and noninfectious diseases in animals by improving their diagnostic and treatment methods. One of the diseases characterized by the difficulty of timely diagnosis is genital mycoplasmosis of cattle, the study of which is an urgent task. The article examines the effect of some methods of therapy of dry cows with genital mycoplasmosis on the degree of infection and vital characteristics of the calves obtained from them. During the experiment, it was found that the use of the antibiotic traksovet for the treatment of cows, as well as its combination with the immunomodulator thymalin, leads to a marked decrease in mycoplasma infection of their offspring. In the early postnatal period, the offspring of cows who received treatment, compared with their peers from mothers who were not treated, showed a lower lag in body weight gain in the first month of life, as well as significantly reduced rates of diarrhea and bronchopneumonia, with a particularly positive effect in the group where complex therapy was used.