A study was undertaken on six male buffalo calves by administering diazepam (0.75 mg/kg, IV) and ketamine (6.0 mg/ kg, IV) 10 min after diazepam. All the animals went into sternal recumbency immediately after diazepam administration followed by lateral recumbency at 6.89 min. Relaxation of muscles was excellent. Swallowing reflex was abolished. There was complete analgesia at fetlock, base of t...

The relationship between tarsocrural osteochondrosis (OCD) and presence of osteochondral fragments in fetlock joints has been previously investigated in racehorses, especially Standardbreds. The increased knowledge of the problem and the introduction and spread of arthroscopy probably reduced the negative effects of these lesions on racing careers. A large group of Standardbred yearlings have b...

In this study we present a newly detected QTL associated with osteochondrosis in Hanoverian warmblood horses on equine chromosome 18 (ECA18). We developed a highly polymorphic and evenly distributed marker set on ECA18 employing the horse genome assembly EquCab2. The marker set included 11 newly developed microsatellites. Average polymorphism information content was 62.1% at an average spacing ...