Seroprevalence, clinical findings, and lesions of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) in Beetal goats were recorded during an outbreak. The overall seroprevalence of CCPP was 32.50%. Confirmation of Mycoplasma mycoides in serum was carried out using counter immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) technique. The highest CIE-positive cases were recorded in the older goats (51.72%) as compared to young ones. Nasal swabs collected from 39 goats showing respiratory signs were found positive for M. mycoides. The most consistent clinical findings were mild to severe cough, purulent nasal secretion, emaciation, dyspnea, increased respiration rate, and pyrexia. Mortality due to CCPP was 9.17%. Consolidation of lungs exhibited the highest frequency (100%), followed by alveolar exudation (90.90%) and pleural adhesion (72.72%). Among the microscopic lesions, septal peribronchiolar fibrosis exhibited the highest frequency (81.81%), followed by fibrinous pleuritis (63.63%) and peribronchiolar cuffing of mononuclear cells (54.54%) in lungs. From these results, it was concluded that CCPP under subtropical conditions has high prevalence in Beetal goats and leads to significant mortality.

There are errors in the title and throughout text of this paper which wrongly states that M. mycoides subsp. capri causes contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP). This erratum should help prevent chaos in reporting the true causative organism of CCPP, Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae. CCPP is an OIE listed and reportable disease.This paper is about Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri infection, a cause of caprine pleuropneumonia (not CCPP). Thus in the title and in the text please read caprine pleuropneumonia for CCPP and the title should more correctly read: 'Caprine pleuropneumonia in Beetal goats'.The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of L-Carnitine (LC), L-Methionine (LM) and Honey (H) supplementation on Lake’s diluent ability to store chicken sperm. Semen samples were collected from local meat type chicken males (n=20, by abdominal massage method. Two experiments were carried out. In Exp-I twelve treatments were prepared in Lake’s diluent mixing different concentrations of LC (i.e., 0.5mMLC, 1mMLC, 2mMLC and 4mMLC), LM (i.e., 0.5mMLM, 1mMLM, 2mMLM and 4mMLM) and H (i.e., 0.25%H, 0.5%H, 1%H and 2%H) while Lake’s diluent without any addition was used as control. In Exp-II four treatments were prepared by mixing different proportions of LC + LM + H in Lake’s diluent as followed: T1 (0.125mMLC + 0.125LM + 0.125%H), T2 (0.25mMLC + 0.25LM + 0.25%H), T3 (0.5mMLC + 0.5LM + 0.5%H) and T4 (1mMLC + 1mMLM + 1%H), while semen mixed only with Lake’s diluent was used as control (To). In both experiments semen was stored up till 48h at 5°C and sperm motility, viability, membrane integrity and abnormal morphology were assessed at 0, 12, 24 and 48h of storage. In Exp-I after 48h we recorded highest (P<0.05) motility (62%) with 2mMLM, membrane integrity with 0.25%H and 0.5%H (43%), sperm viability with 0.25% H (70%) compared with all other treatments, while lowest morphological defects with 1mMLC (29%) and 1mMLM (29%). In Exp-II at 48h we observed highest (P<0.05) motility (52%) and membrane integrity (48%) with T1 compared with all other treatments. We observed highest (P<0.05) sperm viability (64%) with T2 while T1 and T2 had lowest morphological defects (Avg. 29%). It is concluded that 2mMLM supports high motility while honey support viability and membrane integrity till 48h. In addition to that a combination of 0.125mMLC + 0.125mMLM + 0.125%H gives good protection to sperm during liquid semen storage in Lake’s diluemt.

The current study was conducted to evaluate the effects of stored wheat-based diet (1.5 and 2.5 years stored wheat) with and without the supplementation of xylanase and phytase enzymes in combination or individually on performance parameters, digestibility, digesta viscosity and carcass characteristics of broilers. For this purpose, a total of 640-day-old male broilers were randomly distributed to the 64 pens, and each pen had 10 birds. Two basal isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets contained 1.5 and 2.5 years stored wheat were formulated in this experiment. In the current study, experimental feeds were prepared by supplementing exogenous enzymes in both basal diets with xylanase (500 XU), phytase (500 FTU) alone or in a combination of phytase and xylanase. Performance parameters data represents that both in starter phase and finisher phase, inclusion of exogenous enzymes xylanase and phytase in both basal diets alone or in combination enhance the feed intake, and body weight gain (p < 0.05) and improve the feed conversion ratio in overall phase (p < 0.05). Similarly, supplementation of exogenous xylanase and phytase alone or in combination enhance the nutrient digestibility and reduce the digesta viscosity (p < 0.05). Based on the results of this experiment, it is concluded that supplementation of exogenous xylanase and phytase enzymes alone or in combination in wheat-based diets (stored wheat 1.5 and 2.5 years) enhance and improves the performance of birds.