Some studies on hypovitamoinosis C in newly born calves

The object of this study was to investigate the most important clinical abnormalities of calves in response to vitaminC deficiency and determination the blood plasma ascorbic acidm pneumonic, diarrheic & alopecic calves comparatively withauto-control group, also to declare the correlation betweenvitamin C status and the levels of immunoglobulins in thediseased calves in comparison with the auto-control group.As well as especial reference to hematological and biochemical investigation and also to discuss the role of vitamin C in controlling and avoidance such diseased condition through its immunostimulant and antioxidant effect which resulted in agood calves health.Our study was conducted on a private calf breeding farm of Dr. Mahmoud EI-Bayoumy at Aga-Dakahlia Governorate ,a total number of one hundred and twenty diseased calves incomparison with other twenty apparently normal ones which served as a auto control group, all calves housed in the fore mentioned farm and were examined.Rpresentive samples of whole blood and serum were obtained and subjected to laboratory investigation. Thushematological and biochemical studies had been carried on the