Juniper Publishers Journal of Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract The environment of the Bahía Blanca estuary is considered a hot spot in terms of pollution. Bioindicators should have the ability to react relatively fast to certain pollutants and environmental disturbances. Therefore, an exploratory study was carried out determining and quantifying the concentrations of cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) in the muscle and liver of Mustelus schmitti narrownose smooth-hound and were compared with the values obtained from their respective helminth assemblies. In most of the fishes analyzed, the concentration of heavy metals was higher in the infra communities of cestodes compared to the host. Our results position the cestodes as efficient sentinel species of pollution by bioaccumulating higher concentrations of heavy metals than the host tissues, thus behaving in excellent early warnings of environmental pollution, more real than quantifications...

  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...

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract This review was provoked with the purpose of examine and comprehend dairy cattle performance, constraints and prospects of Ethiopian dairy production. Ethiopia holds tenth largest cattle population in the world which contributes 45% of the country GDP and almost all rural population of the country are based on livestock as a major source of income. From livestock production dairying is very crucial for farmers income and their major milk sources are cattle, camel and goats. In communal sense the country has mainly three types of dairy production system Rural, Urban and peri-urban. In urban and peri-urban system farmers insist and employed in dairy production as a main business and they contribute only 2% of total country milk production. Whereas the rural system practices subsistence mixed crop-livestock type of production system and they contribute 98 % of total country milk production. The country has dive...