IMPACT MELOPHAGES ON HEMATOLOGICAL INDICES OF INFESTED SHEEP

Presents the results determine the impact of melophagosis pathogen on hematological indices infected sheep considering indicators intensity of infestation (low – 73.4±5.6 instances of insects on the body of the animal and high – 156.2±7.7 ins.). In experiments using Romanov breed sheep aged from one to three years. Infestation of sheep by melophages studied by full survey of the hair and skin of animals. Established a direct dependence between the degree infestation of sheep and severity of hematological changes in their body. For low intensity melophagosic infestation in the absence of clinical signs of disease in the blood of sheep significantly (p<0.05) increased the number of leucocytes at the expense the number of eosinophils. For high intensity of melophagosic infestation appeared characteristic for melophagosis of sheep clinical signs and in blood decreased number of erythrocytes, hemoglobin (p<0.05) and increased the number of leucocytes, eosinophils (p<0.01) and lymphocytes