Year: 2013 | Month: December | Volume 3 | Issue 2
Chronic Fascioliasis as Cause of Unthriftiness in Sheep with Reference to its Impacts on Blood Constituents
Abstract: <div>Ten adult sheep (2-4years of age) and eight lambs (5-12 month old), of both sexes were involved in this study. Ten apparently healthy sheep (5 adults and 5 lambs) were also used as a control group. The selected animals were presented with prominent clinical signs of progressive weight loss (in adults), underweight (in lambs), profuse watery diarrhea and edematous swelling of the intermandibular space. Blood as well as fecal and feed samples were analyzed for the selected parameters. The obtained results for hematological values revealed significant decrease (P<0.05) in the total erythrocytic cell counts, hemoglobin concentration and packed</div><div>cell volume in both sheep and lambs if compared with those of the apparently</div><div>healthy ones. The mean values of mean corpuscular volume (MCV) were</div><div>significantly increased associated with significant decrease (P<0.05) in mean</div><div>corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) indicating a macrocytic</div><div>hypochromic anemia. Also there was significant increase (P<0.05) in the total</div><div>leucocytic counts with marked eosinophilia in ill thrifty sheep and lambs when</div><div>compared with those of the apparently healthy ones.</div>
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