Efficacy Of Boldenone Undecylenate And Probiotic As Growth Promotors On Male Buffalo Calves

Abd El Fadil, Hosny; El Skeik, Sawsan; Emam, E E; Matar, Morsy

doi:10.21608/zvjz.2013.94470

Efficacy Of Boldenone Undecylenate And Probiotic As Growth Promotors On Male Buffalo Calves

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Fac. of Vet. Med. Zagazig University (Pharamacology department)

² Fac. of Vet. Med. Zagazig University (Pharamacology department

³ Animal Health Research Institute, Zagazig Branch (Pharamacology department)

10.21608/zvjz.2013.94470

Abstract

This study was planned to investigate the effect of probiotic and Boldenone undecylenate on body weight gain, feed conversion rate, blood picture and some biochemical alterations of male buffalo calves. This study was done on twenty male healthy buffalo calves 7-8 months old and weight ranges from 164-170 Kg. They were divided into 4 equal groups each of 5 calves, 1^st group healthy buffalo calves (control), 2^nd group healthy buffalo calves treated with probiotic (Biogen), 3^rd group, healthy buffalo calves treated with half therapeutic dose of Boldenone undecylenate and 4^th group healthy buffalo calves treated with the therapeutic dose of Boldenone undecylenate. Two blood samples were collected at 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^thand 5^th injection at 4 weeks and 4 weeks post last injection. 1^st Sample used for hematological studies. 2^nd sample used for biochemical analysis.
Oral dosing of probiotic and I/M injection of full dose of boldenone undecylenate induced a significant increase in weight gain, erythrocytic count, hemoglobin% content, packed cell volume %, total leukocytic count, total proteins, , globulin, calcium and phosphorus and significant decrease in feed conversion rate beside insignificant effect on albumin compared with control buffalo calves. Half therapeutic dose of boldenone undecylenate induce insignificant effect in all above parameters.
Probiotic and Boldenone undecylenate in therapeutic dose showed non significant effect on serum ALT, AST, ALP, urea and creatinine and significant decrease in blood glucose level.
It could be concluded that the Probiotic and boldenone undecylenate induce good improvement in body weight and feed conversion rate but boldenone undecylenate has some adverse effects on some biochemical parameters than probiotic, so probiotics can be used as safe growth promoter.

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