Haematological profile of goats fed with urea palms sugar block supplementation

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of urea palms sugar block (UPSB) supplementation to domestic goats based on their blood’s haematological profile. This study was conducted in three months, and involved 12 male local goats, aged 12 months with a body weight ranging from 20 to 25 kg. They were placed in individual cage sized 1x0.7x0.5 m3, which is equipped with a special feeding are for UPSB. Supplementation of UPSB was given constantly at 300 grams/head/day and goats were given ad libitum access to water. We treated the rations of forage and UPSB as follows: R0 = corn straw ad libitum+0 g UPSB and R1 = corn straw ad libitum+300 g UPSB. The hematological profiles observed in this study were erythrocyte count, leukocyte count, haemoglobin and haematocrit. We analyzed all data using t-test. The results showed the leukocyte count ranged from 8.8x106/mm3 to 10.0x106/mm3, and was not significant (p>0.05) among treatments. Leukocyte count also showed no significant difference (p>0.05) among treatments with value ranging from 7.7x103/mm3 to 9.0x103/mm3. Haemoglobin did not show any significant difference (p>0.05) among treatment and ranged between 8.6 and 9.7 g/dL. Haematocrit values ranged from 26.8 to 28.1% and was also not significantly different among treatments (p>0.05). These non-significances were probably due to the quality of feed and the conditions of livestock were not much different among treatments. We concluded that despite there were statistically non-significant, UPSB supplementation to corn straw forage for goats showed an increasing trend on hematological profile of goats.