Assessment of ciliate protozoan community on the digestive tract fluid of domestic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) calves fed on raw milk and formulated feeds diet [manuscript]
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2017
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Christine Joy P. Vereña
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This study aimed to isolate and identify morphologically the ciliate protozoa present on the calves' digestive tract fluid and determine the effect of milk and formulated feeds diet on the ciliate population on the digestive tract fluid of domestic buffalo calves'. Methylene-formaldehyde method of centrifugation was used to identify and determine the protozoa. There were eleven (11) morphologically identified species of ciliate protozoa namely Entodinium minimum, Entodinium bifidum, Entodinium parvum, Entodinium nanellum, Entedinium biconcavum, Entodinium simplex, Charonia ventricoli, Blepharocorythia sp., Dastricha ruminantum, Isotrichidae prostoma, Buetschilia sp., belonging to 4 genera namely Ophryoscolecidae, Blepharocorythidae, Buetschliidae, Isotrichiadae and classified into 2 different groups of Holotrich and Endodiniomorphid protozoa. The ciliate protozoan population growth was higher on the calves given alternative weaning diet all throughout the 30 days of observation.