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Minerals and trace elements status of blood serum of lactating goats in a semi-arid region of southwest of Haryana State, India

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Present study was undertaken to determine Beetal breed goats’ serum minerals and trace elements levels which were reared in an organized farm in semi-arid region of south-west of Haryana State, India. Ruminants selected for this study were of 2–6 years age group in post-calving lactation stage. For the quantification of minerals and trace elements, flame photometry and flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry were used, respectively. The results reported that average minerals (Na, K) concentration in goats’ serum was lesser but Ca levels were higher than the reference values. Average trace elements (Zn and Cu) concentration in serum was higher than reference values. For the descriptive statistics of the studied variables in goat serum, ORIGIN software package was used. With positive skewness values K, Ca and Zn had distribution towards higher range while Na, Fe and Cu with negative skewness values presented distribution in lower range. Zn represented leptokurtic distribution and also the right clustered scores. Copper with lower inter-quartile range was found to be the sole element which had data points clustered around the mean value. Almost equal arithmetic and geometric mean values of trace elements and minerals in goats’ serum suggested lesser spatial variation in the data.

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The authors are grateful to Central Sheep Breeding Farm, Hisar for providing goat blood samples for the present study. Authors would also like to express their thankfulness to Center for Radioecology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, India for providing their analysis facilities.

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  1. College Central Lab., Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, 125004, India

    Mahavir Singh & Anshu Sharma

  2. Centre for Radio-Ecology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, 125001, India

    Poonam Yadav, V. K. Garg & Balvinder Singh

  3. Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India

    V. K. Garg

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Singh, M., Yadav, P., Garg, V.K. et al. Minerals and trace elements status of blood serum of lactating goats in a semi-arid region of southwest of Haryana State, India. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 33, 823–827 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-022-01101-9

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