Blood profiles of West African dwarf (WAD) growing bucks fed varying levels of shea nut cake based rations in Nigeria
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2018
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Shea nut cake (SNC) is one of the agro-industrial by-products that
could be used as ruminants feed. A total of 12 West African dwarf young bucks
were used in a completely randomized design for an 84-day study to evaluate
the blood profiles of goats fed diets of 0 % (T1), 10% (T2) and 20% (T3)SNC. The
results revealed that there were slight significant differences in few of the
blood parameters measured among the treatments. The haemoglobin, packed
cell volume (PCV) and red blood cell ranged from 8.33–9.88 g/dl, 20.95–22.05%
and 6.51–7.06 × 106/l respectively. The concentrations of mean corpuscular
volume (21.83–22.17 fl), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (7.58–8.50pg) and
mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (33.00–34.73%) varied significantly
(p < 0.05), white blood cell varied from 8.46 to 12.75 μl and lymphocytes
(%) ranged from 51.27 to 53.78. For serum biochemistry, values obtained for
aspartate aminotransferase and total protein were similar. Cholesterol, alanine
amino transferase and albumin varied significantly among the treatment