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The effect of providing feed supplementation and anthelmintic to donkeys during late pregnancy and lactation on live weight and survival of dams and their foals in Central Ethiopia
  Anthelmintic treatment (A), feed supplementation (F), anthelmintic and feed supplementation (A+F) or traditional management (Control) was given to 166 pregnant female donkeys in three localities (Holetta, Debre Zeit and Adami Tulu) in Ethiopia during an on-farm study. Treatments started during the last trimester of pregnancy and continued until 6 months after parturition when the foals were weaned. The same treatments were administered to foals once they reached 1 month of age. Live weights of adults and foals were measured throughout the study along with work output of adult donkeys and survival to weaning of the foals. Faecal worm egg counts (FEC) and blood packed cell volumes (PCV) were recorded monthly. When applied alone, anthelmintic treatment (A) or feed supplementation (F) had no significant effect on live weight gain or foal survival. However, when combined, anthelmintic and feed supplementation (A+F) significantly (p

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    31 January 2005

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Kluwer Academic

  • DOI:

    10.1007/s11250-005-9003-4

  • ISSN:

    0049-4747

  • Library of Congress:

    SF Animal culture

Citation

Mengistu, A., Smith, D., Yoseph, S., Nega, T., Zewdie, W., Kassahun, W. G., …Firew, T. (2005). The effect of providing feed supplementation and anthelmintic to donkeys during late pregnancy and lactation on live weight and survival of dams and their foals in Central Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 37(S1), 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-005-9003-4

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Keywords

anthelmintic; donkey; Ethiopia; feed supplementation; lactation; pregnancy;

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