Salisi Mohd Shahrom, Saad Mohd Zamri, Kasim Azhar
Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
Trop Anim Health Prod. 2012 Feb;44(2):207-11. doi: 10.1007/s11250-011-0008-x. Epub 2011 Nov 15.
A Boer goat breeding farm with 800 heads of breeder females, 50 breeder males, and 400 growing goats of various ages in Sabah, Malaysia was selected to study the effect of implementing herd health program. This included vaccination program against pneumonic mannheimiosis; fecal monitoring for helminthiasis, coccidiosis, and colibacillosis; and introduction of modified feeding regime comprised of day-time grazing and feeding of cut grass and supplemented feed. The herd health program was implemented in September 2007 and the impact was observed on body weight gains, body scoring, and annual mortality among adults and kids. It was found that implementation of herd health program significantly (p < 0.05) increased the average body weight gains in both adults and kids from 1.8 g per kid and 0.6 g per adult in 2006 to 3.7 g per kid and 2.2 g per adult in 2008. The percentage of adults with body scoring of <3 was significantly (p < 0.05) reduced from 82.3% in 2006 to 77.6% in 2007 and 4% in 2008. Similarly, the annual mortality rate was significantly (p < 0.05) reduced from 6.5% among kids and 58.2% among adults in 2006 to 12.1% among kids and 10.4% among adults in 2007, and to 9.1% among kids and 1.1% among adults in 2008. Therefore, it was concluded that implementation of herd health program significantly improved the survival and performance of goats.
在马来西亚沙巴州，一个拥有800头繁殖母羊、50头繁殖公羊和400头不同年龄段育成羊的布尔山羊养殖场被选来研究实施畜群健康计划的效果。这包括针对肺炎性曼氏杆菌病的疫苗接种计划；对蠕虫病、球虫病和大肠杆菌病进行粪便监测；以及引入由白天放牧、投喂割草和补充饲料组成的改良饲养方式。畜群健康计划于2007年9月实施，并观察了其对成年羊和羔羊体重增加、体况评分及年死亡率的影响。结果发现，实施畜群健康计划显著（p<0.05）提高了成年羊和羔羊的平均体重增加，从2006年每只羔羊1.8克、每只成年羊0.6克分别增至2008年每只羔羊3.7克、每只成年羊2.2克。体况评分<3的成年羊比例从2006年的82.3%显著（p<0.05）降至2007年的77.6%和2008年的4%。同样，年死亡率也显著（p<0.05）降低，从2006年羔羊中的6.5%和成年羊中的58.2%降至2007年羔羊中的12.1%和成年羊中的10.4%，以及2008年羔羊中的9.1%和成年羊中的1.1%。因此，得出结论，实施畜群健康计划显著提高了山羊的存活率和生产性能。
