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Biblioteca(s): 	Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos.	
Data corrente: 	29/04/1996	
Data da última atualização: 	29/04/1996	
Autoria: 	GREEN, L. E.; BERRIATUA, E.; MORGAN, R. L.	
Título: 	Anaemia in housed lambs.	
Ano de publicação: 	1993	
Fonte/Imprenta: 	Research in Veterinary Science, v.54, n.3, p.306-311, 1993.	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Conteúdo: 	Anaemia was detected in housed lambs by clinical and haematological investigation. Conjunctival pallor was used as a clinical test for anaemia and the results indicate that this has high specificity (91 per cent to 95 per cent) and low sensitivity (53 per cent to 55 per cent). The haematological results indicated a non-regenerative anaemia with low packed cell volume, red blood cell count and haemoglobin. ln a subset of lambs examined biochemically, anaemia was associated with low serum iron concentration and low serum iron binding: cobalt levels were within normal ranges and  blood copper levels were slightly raised. At present it is unclear whether this is a primary or secondary iron deficiency. 
EARL y lambing (housed) flocks are becoming increasingly common in the United Kingdom (MLC 1990). Lambs are reared in barns on straw from birth to slaughter. They have access to high energy, high protein food from 10 days old, are weaned at six weeks and reach a slaughter weight of 32 to 36 kg at 10 to 17 weeks old. 
There is little qualitative or quantitative information on diseases of lambs reared in these conditions. A longitudinal observational study of diseases in housed lambs wasmade on three commercial farms. Here the occurrence of anaernia and its possible cause is reported. 	
Thesagro: 	Anemia; Diagnostico; Doença; Ovino.	
Categoria do assunto: 	--	
Registro original: 	Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos (CNPC)	
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