This study was carried out at Hamah Research Centre during 2014/ 2015 season
on Shami goat flock (25 heads) in late pregnancy to determine some indicators of
pregnancy toxemia in Shami goat. The blood samples were taken from both groups
at differe
nt stages of late pregnancy to be used in several biochemistry tests (BHB,
NEFA, glucose, total protein, albumin and triglyceride). The blood tests showed a
significant increase (p≤0.01- 0.001) in BHB and NEFA, and a significant decrease
(p≤0.05) in glucose during 2- 3 weeks antepartum, but one week antepartum for
the albumin. But regarding triglyceride it was high (p≤0.05) during 1- 3 weeks
antepartum. It was noticed a trend to acidic pH in urine of the tested animals.
Also, the acetone was positive (+++) one week before partum. In conclusion, it is
important to evaluate some clinical and biochemical parameters, besides acetone
and pH estimation in urine for the early diagnosis of risks of pregnancy toxemia
in Shami goat’s prior the birth time. This can give time for owners to take some
protection procedures.
Shami goat in Syria is one of the important domestic breeds, because of its
high productivity and breeding capacity under the hard environmental
conditions and it is still being used in crossbreeding with Mountain goats as a
donor for milk produci
ng traits. This breed is still far away from scientific
investigations even it has been exposed to a random crossbreeding with
Mountain goats by goat breeders. This has lead to the possibility of losing some
of its genetic characteristics which are not detected yet. In this research the
genetic diversity among groups of pure Shami goats was determined using
ISSR-PCR on blood and results indicated that there was a molecular genetic
diversity among studied goats and polymorphic rate was register to 100%.
The research was carried out in Karahta Research Station for Shami goats
by using 84/head/Shami kids (122±18.65 days old and 18±3.77 kg body weight).
This trial continued for a 90 day period. Its goal was to find out the possibility
of reducing th
e offered concentrated feed in about 40% from the regular
requirements for growing and replacing it by improving the nutritive value of
the offered straw when they treated with urea, molasses or both of them.
The Animals divided randomly into six treatments according to the offered
feed for each treatment as the follows:
Untreated wheat straw (control), wheat straw treated with 20% molasses,
1% urea, 1% urea and 20% molasses, 2.5% and with 2.5% urea and 20%
molasses.
