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Ptáček M, Kyriánová IA, Nápravníková J, Ducháček J, Husák T, Chay-Canul AJ, Zaragoza-Vera C, Cruz-Bacab L, Vadlejch J. Do Live Weight, Body Condition Score, Back Muscle or Back-Fat Reserves Create the Suspicion of Goats Infected with Eimeria or Trichostrongylids? Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:3591. [PMID: 34944366 PMCID: PMC8698025 DOI: 10.3390/ani11123591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Thirty goats of the breeds Czech Brown Shorthaired and Czech White Shorthaired and their crosses were randomly selected from a flock at a farm in the Czech Republic. All animals were monitored for one year at monthly intervals for their nutritional status (live weight, LW; body-condition score, BCS; depth of musculus longissimus thoracis et lumborum, MLTL; back-fat thickness, BT) and infection intensity with Eimeria sp. (EIM) and strongylid nematodes (STR). Regression-correlation analysis showed a possible interrelation of BCS with EIM infection. Analysis of muscle and fat reserves indicated that BT was better than MLTL in identifying EIM infection. Goat nutritional status was not significantly correlated with STR infection. A linear tendency (p = 0.092), however, was detected for the response of MLTL to STR infection. Results of this study indicated theoretical use of BCS for Eimeria identification and suggested some perspective of BCS for targeting animals infected by strongylid nematode. Validity of our results, however, was limited by number of observed animals managed under specific breeding conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Martin Ptáček
- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic;
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- Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic; (I.A.K.); (J.N.); (T.H.); (J.V.)
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- Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic; (I.A.K.); (J.N.); (T.H.); (J.V.)
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- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic;
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- Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic; (I.A.K.); (J.N.); (T.H.); (J.V.)
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- División Académica de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa 86280, Tabasco, Mexico; (A.J.C.-C.); (C.Z.-V.); (L.C.-B.)
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- División Académica de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa 86280, Tabasco, Mexico; (A.J.C.-C.); (C.Z.-V.); (L.C.-B.)
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- División Académica de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa 86280, Tabasco, Mexico; (A.J.C.-C.); (C.Z.-V.); (L.C.-B.)
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- Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic; (I.A.K.); (J.N.); (T.H.); (J.V.)
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Reintke J, Brügemann K, Wagner H, Engel P, Wehrend A, König S. Phenotypic relationships between maternal energy metabolism and lamb body weight development during lactation for pure- and crossbred sheep populations in low and high input production systems. Small Rumin Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2019.106037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ptáček M, Milerski M, Schmidová J, Ducháček J, Tančin V, Uhrinčať M, Hakl J, Stádník L. Relationship between body mass index, body energy reserves, milk, and meat production of original Wallachian sheep. Small Rumin Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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SoltaniNezhad B, Dayani O, Khezri A, Tahmasbi R. Performance and carcass characteristics in fattening lambs feed diets with different levels of pistachio by-products silage with wasted date. Small Rumin Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2016.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Karakuş F, Atmaca M. The effect of ewe body condition at lambing on growth of lambs and colostral specific gravity. Arch Anim Breed 2016. [DOI: 10.5194/aab-59-107-2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Abstract. This study was carried out on 60 Norduz ewes to determine the effect of ewe body condition at lambing on growth of lambs and colostral specific gravity. Body condition score (BCS), ranging from 2.5 to 3.5, had no effect on lamb live weight at birth, 30, 60, 90 and 120 days of age (P > 0.05). The average colostral specific gravity determined as 1.049 was not affected by body condition of ewes. A moderate positive correlation (r = 0.436) was observed between condition score and live weight of ewes (P < 0.001). The results of this study suggest that BCS is not a reliable estimator of live weight for Norduz ewes.
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