Physiological status naturally infected gastrointestinal goats in response to polyherbal supplementation and Melastoma malabathricum extract

Abstract

Abstract This study aimed to determine the effect of polyherbal supplementation and Melastoma malabathricum extract on the physiological status of naturally infected gastrointestinal parasite on Peranakan Etawa goats. Twenty goats were divided into five treatments, in which four treatments were infected animals and one treatment was used as an uninfected control animal. The five treatments were: T1= Non-polyherbal pellets + Ivermectin, T2= Andrographis paniculata + Curcuma mangga + Nigella sativa, T3= Andrographis paniculata + Curcuma domestica + Nigella sativa, T4= Curcuma mangga + Curcuma domestica + Nigella sativa, and T5= Uninfected control + Non-polyherbal pellets. Melastoma malabathricum extract was also given to T2, T3, and T4 to substitute Ivermectin. Parameters measured were rectal temperature, respiration rate, pulse rate, HTC, and THI. Results showed that there was no significant difference among the treatments on respiration rate, but highly significant (p<0.01) on rectal temperature and pulse rate. The pulse rate was significantly higher (p<0.05) in uninfected animals having THI value of 77-86 representing the hot condition for goats. Those goats could adopt its environment during the study as indicated by the HTC value of 2.15-2.28. Results also showed that HTC value was strongly correlated with the respiration rate (coefficient correlation 0.9987).