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Strategies for Feeding Unweaned Dairy Beef Cattle to Improve Their Health Devant, Maria Marti, Sonia Producció Animal Producció de Remugants In order to answer the question of whether nutritional interventions may help to reduce the incidence of respiratory disease in dairy beef calves at arrival, the present review is divided in three sections. In the first section, the nutrition of calves previous to the arrival from the origin farm to the final rearing farm is reviewed. In the second section, the possible consequences of this previous nutrition on gut health and immune status upon arrival to the rearing farm are described. The main consequences of previous nutrition and management that these unweaned calves suffer at arrival are the negative energy balance, the increased intestinal permeability, the oxidative stress, the anemia, and the recovery feed consumption. Finally, in the third section, some considerations to advance in future nutritional strategies are suggested, which are focused on the prevention of the negative consequences of previous nutrition and the recovery of the gut and immune status. Moreover, additional suggestions are formulated that will be also helpful to reduce the incidence of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) that are not directly linked to nutrition like having a control golden standard in the studies or designing risk categories in order to classify calves as suitable or not to be transported. 2025-10-22T11:02:06Z 2025-10-22T11:02:06Z 2025-10-22T11:02:06Z 2020-10-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Devant, Maria, and Sonia Marti. 2020. "Strategies For Feeding Unweaned Dairy Beef Cattle To Improve Their Health". Animals 10 (10): 1908. doi:10.3390/ani10101908. 2076-2615 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12327/970 https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10101908 eng Animals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution 4.0 International MDPI