The present study was carried out to see the efficacy of lugol's iodine for the initiation of ovarian cyclicity in postpartum true anestrus buffaloes. Confirmation of true anestrus in 30 buffaloes was done by finding smooth ovaries at rectal examination, out of 30, 15 buffaloes was treated with Lugol's iodine (1:50) ratio @ 30ml I/U once only whereas, the remaining 15 buffaloes were serve as co...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com haemoprotozoan disorders in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh especially in buffaloes. It is one of the widely prevalent economically important diseases in animals and caused by unicellular flagellated haemoprotozoan Trypanosoma evansi organisms [1]. It spread by mechanical transmission and tabanid flies act as vectors. The disease is general...

Epidemiological studies were undertaken at slaughter-houses, livestock farms, veterinary hospitals andon household buffaloes under climatic conditions of four different districts of Punjab province. Infection ratewas 22.29, 28.33, 17.08 and 12.75%, respectively in slaughter-house buffaloes, livestock farm buffaloes,veterinary hospital buffaloes and household buffaloes. Overall the season wise t...

Objective: Diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 is a microsomal enzyme that catalyzes the final step of triglyceride synthesis. The objective of this project is to check out the polymorphism at the exon 8 region of DGAT1 gene using PCR-SSCP technique in Iranian water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis). Recent activities have shown that a significant association between lysine at amino acid positi...

In order to describe the lactation curves of milk yield (MY) and composition in buffaloes, seven non-linear mathematical equations (Wood, Dhanoa, Sikka, Nelder, Brody, Dijkstra and Rook) were used. Data were 116 117 test-day records for MY, fat (FP) and protein (PP) percentages of milk from the first three lactations of buffaloes which were collected from 893 herds in the period from 1992 to 20...

The present investigation included two experiments. The first dealt with mineral levels in hair and blood plasma as possible indicators for the different minerals status of growing and adult Friesian and buffaloes which were fed under practical conditions during the period from November 1988 to August 1989. Friesian and buffaloes were almost similar in age and body weight and were fed winter ra...

Six multiparous lactating Egyptian buffaloes in their second and fourth season of lactation after their peak of milk production were used in two complete balanced period’s changeover design experiment during January to March. Three experimental rations (T1, T2 and T3) were fed in amounts to meet 100, 110 and 115 % of their AFRC (1993) metabolizable energy (ME) requirements. The protected fat (c...

Accepted: 21/05/2015 Abstract The present study was aimed to investigate liver function upon supplementation of vitamin E to dry Murrah buffaloes through analysis of serum enzymes. The Murrah buffaloes (n = 12) were selected during their late gestation from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) livestock herd and divided randomly into two groups, comprising of six each. Buffaloes of group I ...

The objective of this study was to assess the host status of African buffaloes, Syncerus caffer, for the one-host tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) decoloratus. To this end the R. (B.) decoloratus burdens of ten buffaloes examined in three north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal Province (KZN) nature reserves were compared with those of medium-sized to large antelope species in these reserves and in the south...

Buffalo reproduction is considerably affected by late maturity, poor oestrus symptoms and long postpartum periods. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of Eazi Breed controlled internal drug release (CIDR), an intravaginal progesterone-releasing device, in relation to oestrus and fertility. Five hundred true anoestrus buffalo cows, in the age group 4-6 years in 10 villages of Dh...