Study on management practices in migratory and sedentary goat population of north-western himalayan region
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2024-03-28
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Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu (J&K)
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The present study was aimed to analyse managemental practices between migratory and sedentary goat population of North-West Himalayan region. For this general managemental practices followed by farmers were documented. The physiological and biochemical parameters of animals along with relative mRNA expression of genes related to inflammasome components, heat shock response (HSR), pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines, antioxidative enzymes of migratory and sedentary goat herds were also studied. In this study, it was evident that managemental practices adopted by migratory herds were traditional in nature lacking recent scientific practices as compared to sedentary herds. Comparison of somatic cell counts among different goat breeds revealed lower count in Gaddi (<1x105 cells/ml) and Bakarwali (1-2x105 cells/ml) breeds and moderately high (2-5 x105 cells/ml) in Beetal breed. Significant difference in faecal egg count (FEC/gm) was found between Gaddi and Bakarwali, Bakarwali and Beetal whereas no significant difference was found between Gaddi and Beetal. Observation on physiological parameters revealed no significant difference among breeds. Among biochemical parameters significant difference among breeds was found for serum albumin concentration and sodium ion concentration. Relative expression pattern of inflammatory genes showed that mRNA level of ASC gene increased after grazing in both breeds. The relative mRNA expression of HSPA1L expression significantly (p<0.05) decreased after grazing. HSPA8 expression was significantly (p<0.01) increased after grazing in both breeds. Among pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines INFG expression was significantly increased (p<0.05) after grazing. In anti-oxidant enzymes, GPX showed significant increase (p<0.05) in both breeds.
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