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| Cerqueira,Valíria Duarte; Riet-Correa,Gabriela; Duarte,Marcos Dutra; Oliveira,Carlos Alberto de; Riet-Correa,Franklin. |
| In the Amazon region, sprouting pastures of Panicum maximum cause colic and death in horses and mules. To produce the disease two experiments were performed with growing P. maximum cv. 'Mombaça' in penned horses. In Experiment 1, at the beginning of the raining season, 10 horses were fed with recently harvested sprouting P. maximum. Two horses showed colic on the 5th and 11th day after start of the ingestion. In Experiment 2, also during the raining season, the same 10 horses used in Experiment 2 were divided into two groups of 5 horses each. Group 1 received sprouting P. maximum immediately after harvested and Group 2 received the grass 24 hours after harvested. The control group consisted of four animals which were placed in individual pens and fed with... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Acute abdomen; Equidae; Intestinal disorders; Panicum maximum. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782012001100019 |
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