Effects of Knotweed-Enriched Feed on the Blood Characteristics and Fitness of Horses
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F22%3A00561126" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/22:00561126 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62156489:43410/22:43920955
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12010109" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12010109</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12010109" target="_blank" >10.3390/agriculture12010109</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of Knotweed-Enriched Feed on the Blood Characteristics and Fitness of Horses
Original language description
The aboveground biomass of dry knotweed was administered daily to large groups of young (1- to 3-year-old) stallions of the Czech Warmblood, Czech-Moravian Coldblood and Silesian Norik breeds, fed individually for 4 and 6 months in two successive winter experiments. Their fitness was compared with control groups consisting of equally numerous subgroups comparable in age, breed, body mass and initial blood parameters. The effects of knotweed on the horses’ fitness were evaluated based on changes in blood characteristics. Even if administered in small amounts, 150 g per day, knotweed could (1) increase the thrombocyte numbers, (2) increase the globulin content (thus improving the horses’ immunity, which is desired in large groups of animals), (3) stimulate lipid metabolism in cold-blooded horses and (4) decrease the concentration of cholesterol. The long-lasting effect of knotweed on both the urea and triglyceride–cholesterol ratio presumably reflected, between the two experiments, the temporary protein starvation of horses on pastures with poor quality of grass in a dry summer.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40301 - Veterinary science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TH02010325" target="_blank" >TH02010325: Innovation of feed supplements for fitness improvement of domestic and wild animals</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Agriculture-Basel
ISSN
2077-0472
e-ISSN
2077-0472
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
109
UT code for WoS article
000747504800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85123264290