Nematodiasis on Bali Cattle Haematology Profile in Lombok island West Nusa Tenggara Indonesia
Luh Gde Sri Astiti (a) Tanda Panjaitan (a) Ni Made Sriasih (b)
Balai Pengkajian Teknologi Pertanian West Nusa Tenggara (a)
Faculty of Animal Husbandry Mataram University (b)
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine haematology profile of Nematodiasis of Bali cattle in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara. Recently, in this region the population of Bali cattle was increased. However, the cattle management adopted has still traditional and likely has high risk infected by gastrointestinal parasite such us nematode. The gastrointestinal parasites infection by nematodes can cause health problems and will impact on decline in production, economic losses, decreasing ability to extract nutrients from raw food, fertility, ability to eat, weight loss, decline on milk production, increased costs of treatment due to anaemia, oedema, diarrhoea, yellowish, depression and even death. Faecal from cattle that suspected invested by nematode take and nematode-s egg investigated with Wisconsin technique. Fifteen samples selected for a haematological profile study. The haematological profile shows high persentase of eosinophil on the blood. This indicates that the Bali cattle have developed its own mechanism to depend against parasite infection and allergic reaction.
Keywords: Bali Cattle, Haematology, Nematodiasis
Topic: General animal production and husbandries (ruminants and non-ruminants)