Indian Journal of Animal Research

SCOPUSWeb of Science
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 53
  • Issue: 9

Effects of traditional and modern housing conditions on some internal medicine parameters in cattle

  • Author:
  • Bülent Elitok1,, Mustafa Ilbey Kilic2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 1246 to 1251

1Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 03200-Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 03200-Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

2Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 06100-Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

This study was carried out in a total of 100 cattle aged between 6 to 18 months housed in modern and traditional husbandry farms. Clinical, ruminal fluid, hematological, blood biochemical and blood gases examinations were determined on days the 1st, 3rd and 7th days of the study. At the end of the study, it was shown that the respiration and heart frequencies, WBC, RBC, PCO2, HCO3−, AST, GGT, glucose and cortisol levels in the animals breeding in the traditional farm were found to be higher than those of the animals breeding in the modern husbandries, whereas seratonin, total protein and albumin levels were low.

Keywords

Animal, Breeding, Modern housing, Stress, Traditional housing