INFLUENCE OF NATURAL COMPLEX ADDITIVE ON HEMATOLOGIC FACTORS IN PIGLETS

Abstract

The aim of the study was to improve efficacy of mineral metabolism disorder treatment and prevention in young pigs. A task was formulated within the study aim: to perform comparative evaluation of pure Silimiks and its mixture with tricalcium phosphate in terms of influence on hematologic factors in weanling piglets. Influence of complex silica-alumina preparation Silimiks and mix of Silimiks preparation with tricalcium phosphate on mineral metabolism in piglets was studied. Silimiks is a natural complex feed additive based on montmorillonite, ceolite, glauconite, phosphorite, chalk, and other minerals. Tricalcium phosphate is a widely spread mineral preparation made of apatite and phosphorite. The test was performed at Kudinv V. A. Farm in Progress settlement, Khvorostyansky Region of Samara Oblast. Animals with clinical signs of rickets were enrolled. The test was performed on three groups of 7 piglets each, grouped on peer approach. The first group was treated with Silimiks preparation, the second was treated with the mixture of Silimiks and tricalcium phosphate (3:1); the third group was the control. The test demonstrated positive influence on hematologic factors in weanling piglets of both test groups. However, the most prominent effect was detected when the mixture of tricalcium phosphate with Silimiks was administered. Thus, it was found that in the group treated with the mixture of Silimiks and tricalcium phosphate (the second test group) the number of erythrocytes increased progressively and constantly against the beginning of the test by 11.16% (p<0.05), by 19.43% (p<0.05) against the control group, and by 10.5% against the resulting figures in the first test group. Hemoglobin index in the second group increased by 32.35% (P>0.99) against the initial value. Packed cell volume increased by 14% in the first group and by 26.6% (p<0.01) in the second group against the control. The test proved that introduction of Silimiks in mixture with tricalcium phosphate (3:1) improves efficacy of treatment and prevention of rickets in weanling piglets through antianemic activity which is more apparent than if pure Silimiks preparation is fed.