Comprehensive clinical and biochemical diagnosis of hypomicroelementosis in the saaneni white german improved goats acclimatized in biogeochemical conditions of the Astrakhan Region

Abstract

The study of trace elements in recent years has reached a new comprehensive clinical and biochemical level of diagnosis of the latent form of hypomicroelementoses. About this in the literature, there are serious studies performed on various productive animals, including farm birds. Of particular importance are these data when transporting animals from one biogeochemical region to another, and their acclimatization. The work shows the data from a study of a large complex of physiological and biochemical blood parameters in Zaanen white German improved goats imported to the Astrakhan region from the “reference” chernozem region (Krasnodar Territory), where, due to the optimal level of trace elements in the main components of terrestrial ecosystems (soil, water, various types of plants and plant foods) endemic pathologies are not observed, including hypomicroelementoses. The studied clinical parameters (body temperature, pulse rate, the number of respiratory movements per minute) in Saanen white German improved goats acclimatizing in the Astrakhan region were determined by generally accepted methods and they were within the range of normative and published data. The content of trace elements in biological samples was determined by the atomic absorption method. The main changes were revealed during the biochemical analysis of the blood of the studied goats, which indicate the presence in the Saanen white German improved goats of a latent (asymptomatic) form of the combined (Se, I, Co) hypomicroelementosis, which was accompanied by a decrease in the integrative functions of milk productivity and reproduction of the studied ruminants.