Effects of traditional and modern housing conditions on some internal medicine parameters in cattle Elitok Bülent1,*, Kilic Mustafa Ilbey2 Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 03200-Afyonkarahisar, Turkey 1Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 03200-Afyonkarahisar, Turkey 2Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 06100-Ankara, Turkey *Corresponding author's e-mail: elitok1969@hotmail.com
Online published on 15 October, 2019. Abstract This study was carried out in a total of 100 cattle aged between 6 to 18 months housed in modern and traditional husbandry farms. Clinical, ruminal fluid, hematological, blood biochemical and blood gases examinations were determined on days the 1st, 3rd and 7th days of the study. At the end of the study, it was shown that the respiration and heart frequencies, WBC, RBC, PCO2, HCO3−, AST, GGT, glucose and cortisol levels in the animals breeding in the traditional farm were found to be higher than those of the animals breeding in the modern husbandries, whereas seratonin, total protein and albumin levels were low. Top Keywords Animal, Breeding, Modern housing, Stress, Traditional housing. Top |