Juniper Publishers Journal of Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract Evaluation of the concentrations of the sperm macromolecule called proAKAP4, has been successfully introduced as a pertinent sperm parameter to assess sperm quality and high concentrations of proAKAP4 was shown to be highly correlated with sperm motility and fertility in large mammals. The sandwich ELISA kits known as Pig 4MID® Kits allowed the artificial insemination stations to monitor sperm quality more accurately with threshold values qualifying each ejaculate and animal. Introducing new methods and procedures are always challenging and sperm frozen collections have been suggested to standardize sperm assessment in daily routine. We thus have designed an experimental study to assess proAKAP4 stability and integrity in neat frozen ejaculates. Following baseline measurements, fresh ejaculates were aliquoted and stored at -20 °C for stability experiments up to 6 months and following up to 10 freeze-thawing ...

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract The study was conducted from August 2017 to December 2017 at the Kumasi Abattoir Company Limited to investigate the causes of carcass condemnation in slaughtered pigs and their associated financial losses. Out of the 1221 pigs examined, 212(17.4%) were affected with pathological conditions. The five most frequent pathological conditions were: Lung congestion (7.9%), Ascariasis (2.7%), Cysticercosis (2.4%), Liver congestion (1.1%) and Liver abscess (0. 9%). Pathological conditions were more prevalent (57%) in female pigs than in males (43%). Cross bred pigs were more (81%) affected by pathological conditions than the local Ashanti black pig (19%). The overall carcass condemnation rate was 1.7% with Cysticercosis being the major cause. The average condemnation rate of visceral organs was 1.8 %. Annually, a total of One hundred thousand, six hundred and twenty-eight cedis, seventy-two Pesewas (GHc100, 628.72) w...

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract Poisons are mixtures of enzymes with useful functions for the evolution and survival of each of the species that produce them. Among the poisons produced by the same family, cross antigenic reactions can occur, among various species of animals such as scorpions, toads, snakes, etc. [1,2]. The effect of zootoxins in animals and people the symptoms are similar: local pain, erythema, itching, edema, burning pain, redness, with whitish area in the center, change of color to purple, hemorrhage in the area, formation of vesicles, formation of vesicles, formation of pustules, necrotic scab, deep ulceration [3-5]. In Mexico, bites by Arthropods represent a serious problem, including scorpions of the Centruroides genus and spiders of the genera Loxosceles and Latrodectus, [6-8] and their severity. is represented by the cases reported in 2018, Poison intoxication of animals 2,680 men and 2,486 women in 2017 and 22, 16...