The effect of providing feed supplementation and anthelmintic to donkeys during late pregnancy and lactation on live weight and survival of dams and their foals in central Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 21-33

  Mengistu, A ^a   Smith, D G ^b   Yoseph, S ^a   Nega, T ^c   Zewdie, W ^a   Kassahun, W G ^a   Taye, B ^a   Firew, T ^a  

^a ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Oromia Agriculture Research Institue   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic; Donkey; Ethiopia; Feed supplementation; Lactation; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOCRIT; HORSE; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RURAL POPULATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTHELMINTICS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; EQUIDAE; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; LACTATION; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RURAL POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 28344448985     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TROP.0000047929.59105.54     Document Type: Article

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