A survey to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis and certain other infectious diseases was conducted on 42 free-ranging African buffaloes, (Syncerus caffer) from May to June 1997 in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Using the gamma interferon test, exposure to M. bovis was detected in 21.6% of the buffaloes. One dead buffalo and an emaciated war...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Mastitis is a serious disease of dairy animals causing great economic losses due to a reduction in milk yield as well as lowering its nutritive value. The application of somatic cell count (SCC) and alkaline phosphatase activity in the milk for diagnosis of mastitis in buffalo is not well documented. Therefore, the present study was conducted to observe the SCC and alkaline p...

The present research experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of GnRH and PGF2α administration on post partum fertility in retained placenta buffaloes. Total thirty six Murrah buffaloes with retained placenta condition were selected and the placentas were removed manually and intra-uterine boluses were kept (3 boluses per day for 3 consecutive days post-partum) in experimental buffaloe...

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...

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...

We have shown previously that anti-fecundity immunity can be induced experimentally against recombinant 26 kDa glutathione S-transferase (reSjc26GST) in Chinese water buffaloes (Bos buffelus), important reservoir hosts for Schistosoma japonicum in China. In the field study described here, we immunized buffaloes with reSjc26GST to induce protective immunity against S. japonicum and to evaluate i...