Monthly changes in body condition scores and internal parasite prevalence in Nguni, Bonsmara and Angus steers raised on sweetveld

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1169-1177

  Ndlovu, T ^a   Chimonyo, M ^a   Muchenje, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fasciola spp; Indigenous cattle; Packed cell volume; Strongyles egg

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; FECES; HEMATOCRIT; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HEMATOCRIT; LINEAR MODELS; OVUM; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

BOS; FASCIOLA; STRONGYLES;

EID: 70350338758     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-008-9297-0     Document Type: Article

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