Evaluation of rumen transfaunation after treatment of rumen acidosis in cows

Many cows suffer from indigestion and rumen acidosis, in which rumen acidity drops to less than 5, and leads to the death of the ruminal protozoa in the rumen, a sharp decline in animal productivity, stoop rumination , eating and impaction with acidity of blood, exposing the animal to death and expose the owners to great losses, Solving the problem of indigestion by traditional methods leads to a prolonged suffering and absence of ruminal protozoa from the rumen, which prolongs the period of poor production and great money losses to the owners. But if the protozoa are transfaunated from a healthy, animal to the animals with acidosis, after treatment of the original cause and clinical signs it leads to a faster recovery, improved digestion, and a return to normal production. Accordingly, the idea of these experiment was based, which is transfaunation from healthy animals that were recently slaughtered in the abatouar to the rumen of four cows suffering from indigestion at a rate of 3 liters from ruminal fluid and the condition of the animals was followed after that , eating, digestion and general health condition in addition to following up the count of protozoa in the rumen ,Their multiplication and activity, as well as the productivity of the tranfaunated animals over the course of five weeks after recovery from acidosis , and the results were recorded consecutively, where there was a significant improvement in the condition of transfaunated animals and an increase in their productivity till reach to normal as Control group while that suffered from acidosis and treated by the traditional methods only without transfaunation take more time to back to normal in their milk production.