Juniper Publishers Journal of Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF DAIRY & VETERINARY SCIENCES Abstract Livestock is a major source of income, food security, transportation, and manure for the peoples of this region for fulfilling multiple economic, social and risk management of the family. The impact of climate change is expected to heighten the vulnerability of livestock systems and trigger the livestock holders to chronic poverty. Tools like Focal group discussion and key informant interview was done. Some of the locally adopted measures to mitigate with changing climate were changing feeding pattern, planting forage and fodder trees, renovation of the sheds, proper vaccination, deworming and dipping of animals to prevent disease and parasites and conservation of pasture and local breeds. Keywords: Food security; Renovation; Feeding pattern; Vaccination; Conservation. Abbreviations: FGD: Focal Group Discussion; FMD: Foot and Mouth Disease; PPR: PesteDes Petits Ruminants; KII: Key Inf

JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF DAIRY & VETERINARY SCIENCES Abstract The study was conducted to explore an alternative method of producing analgesia for surgical procedure in goats. Eighteen apparently healthy 1-3 years old female Philippine native goats, weighing 10-20 kg were divided randomly into three groups with six animals each and subjected to the following: a. Distal paravertebral nerve block (DPNB) using lidocaine hydrochloride; b. Conventional needle acupuncture (CNA) through needling of Acupoints BA04, 31, 22, 26 and 47; and c. Aquapuncture using 2% chili pepper decoction (AQP) to stimulate the same acupoints as in CNA. Exploratory laparotomy was conducted and analgesia, physiological responses and cortisol levelin the animals were determined. Good to excellent surgical analgesia was produced in all six sheep of DPNB, five animals in AQP and one animal in CNA. Heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature were within normal levels in all groups,