RESUMO
Ammi visnaga seeds and Artemisia herba-alba shoots were fed to 7-d-old Bovans chicks at 2% and 10% of diet for 9 w. The 10% A visnaga seed was toxic but not lethal to chicks and caused a consistently reduced body weight gain, inefficient feed utilization, enterohepatonephropathy, anemia, and alterations of serum aspartate transaminase and creatine kinase activities and cholesterol, total lipid and uric acid concentrations. The depression in growth and damage to vital organs of chicks fed 10% A herba-alba shoots 2% A visnaga seed, or 2% A herba-alba shoots were less marked.
Assuntos
Ammi/intoxicação , Artemisia/intoxicação , Galinhas , Intoxicação por Plantas/veterinária , Doenças das Aves Domésticas/imunologia , Ração Animal , Animais , Suscetibilidade a Doenças , Intoxicação por Plantas/imunologia , Brotos de Planta , SementesRESUMO
The effects of Pearl millet, fermented millet, or processed fermented millet were investigated in 15 goats assigned as untreated controls, Pearl millet-fed (166.6g/animal/d), fermented millet-fed (166.6 g/animal/d or 83.3g/animal/d), and processed fermented millet-fed (166.6g/ animal/d). Pearl millet caused goiter within 72-108 d, and changes in thyroid follicles were correlated with clinical manifestations and alterations in serum and tissue iodine and selenium concentrations. Neither fermented nor processed fermented millet produced goiter, but their toxicity was characterized by ruminal bloat, dyspnea, diarrhea, ataxia, and enterohepatonephrotoxicity with death within 5-15 d. Organ lesions correlated with changes in serum enzymes and other serum constituents, hematology, and tissue and serum iodine and selenium concentrations.
