THE LEVELS OF SOME BIOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS IN THE SERUM OF GOATS IN THE SAVANNAH ZONE OF NIGERIA

Abstract

Little work has been done to determine blood protein and electrolyte levels in healthy goats in the savannah zone of Nigeria. With the increasing interest in goats as experimental animals and for production, there is an obvious need to determine these parameters. The free range goat husbandry methods in this zone are such that the intake of minerals needs to be known and thus correlated with the blood levels under the grazing conditions needs to be known so as to form a baseline for intensive farming methods. Reported are some biochemical components of serum in goats