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http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle20.500.11799/65478| Title: | Mineral status and interrelationship in soil, forage, and blood serum of horses in the rainy and dry seasons | Authors: | Ignacio Arturo Domínguez Vara EDITH SANCHEZ MALVAEZ PABLO MEDINA NAVARRO ROBERTO MONTES DE OCA JIMENEZ RODOLFO VIEYRA ALBERTO ERNESTO MORALES ALMARAZ Jorge Alberto Lugo de la Fuente JUAN EDREI SANCHEZ TORRES JOSE LUIS BORQUEZ GASTELUM JORGE PABLO ACOSTA DIBARRAT Abdelfattah Zeidan Mohamed Salem |
Keywords: | horses;mineral;soil;forage;serum;season;info:eu-repo/classification/cti/6 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER | Project: | Vol.;49 | Description: | The feeding and nutrition of livestock becomes less of an empirical endeavor when the information necessary to scientifically balance diets is available [1]. Equine performance is influenced by genetic, nutritional, health, and management factors. Thus, optimal nutrition is essential for a foal to achieve maximal performance. Likewise, nutrition is fundamental for husbandry purposes as several reproductive problems due to nutritional deficiencies have been identified [2]. The objective was to evaluate the content of P, Ca, Mg, K, Na, Cu, Fe, Zn, Se, and Mn in soil, forage, and serum of horses in several production units (PU) during rainy and dry seasons and predict their concentration in serum from their content in soil and forage. Soil and pastures were sampled in the dry (November–December) and in rainy seasons (June–July), and blood samples were collected from the jugular vein of 76 horses in both seasons at four PU. The experimental design was a completely random design within a 4 2 (PU season) factorial arrangement of treatments. Concentration of minerals in soil differed (P < .05) among PU, and contents of P, Ca, Mg, and K were low; Zn and Fe were high; and Cu and Mn were adequate. Mineral concentrations in forage differed among PU and season, and among PU within season (interaction P <.05). Contents of Ca, Mg, Na, Zn, and Cu were low; Fe was high; and P, K, Se, and Mn adequate. The mineral concentration in equine blood serum differed (P <.05) among PU and season. Overall, there were deficiencies of P, Ca, Mg, Na, Cu, and Se, but adequate amounts of K, Zn, and Fe. There are imbalances of minerals in soil and forages which effected their concentration inequine blood. |
URI: | http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle20.500.11799/65478 | Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/65478 | Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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