Effect of Different Housing Systems on Haematological Parameters of Buffaloes

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of two housing systems on haematological parameters in buffaloes. Twelve buffaloes were selected and randomly divided into two equal groups. The animals of Group A were housed in shade with net and the animals of Group B in shade without net. The experiment was conducted for a period of three months. Blood samples were aseptically collected fortnightly and were analysed for haematological studies. The mean values for haemoglobin, total erythrocyte count, total leucocyte count, packed cell volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration and neutrophil were 8.49±0.52 g/dl, 5.54±1.05 (10 6 /cmm), 27.45±0.44 (%), 31.15±0.66 (%) and 40.99±1.34 (%), respectively, which was nonsignificantly higher than the values of 8.20±0.80 g/dl, 5.22±0.66 (10 6 /cmm), 27.00±0.58 (%),30.35±0.32 (%) and 39.96±0.66 (%), respectively. Whereas, the values of mean corpuscular haemoglobin, lymphocyte, eosinophil and monocyte were 15.26±1.06 (µµg), 55.33±0.44 (%),2.32±0.45 (%), and 1.69±0.69 (%); respectively, which were non significantly lower than the values of 15.72±0.85 (µµg), 55.56±0.61 (%),3.19±0.05 (%), and 2.03±0.84 (%), respectively in Group A as compared to Group B. However, the white blood corpuscle count (13.75±0.56 ,10 3 /cmm) was significantly (P<0.01) higher than the value of 10.58±0.42 (10 3 /cmm) and the mean corpuscular volume (49.45±0.21, µ 3) was significantly (p<0.05) lower than the value of 51.85±0.45 (µ 3) in Groups A and B, respectively.

Hematological and Biochemical Parameters of Pregnant and Lactating Goats in Rangeland of Cholistan Desert, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

“…The present RBCs results were however different to that reported by Garkal et al (2016) who described erythrocyte count decrease during pregnancy in buffaloes. This decrease may be due to the under stress condition due to the destruction of erythrocytes (Muna et al, 2003).…”

Effect of microclimatic variables on physiological and hematological parameters of crossbred cows in summer season

“…The low level of heamoglobin in control group may be due to haemodilution effect, as more water is transported in circulatory system due to evaporative cooling and low level of nutrition supply with rise of temperature (Koubkova et al, 2002;Abdelatif et al, 2009). However, decreased red blood cell count under stress conditions may be due to destruction of erythrocyte and haemodilution effect (Marai and Haeeb, 2010), which might be due to depression of thyroid secretion which is associated with decreased erythropoiesis (Garkal and Kekan, 2016). The increased leucocytes counts (eosinophils, neutrophils, lymohocytes etc) in control groups may suggest the increased infestation and biting of pests to cows.…”