Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Silent heat merupakan kondisi ternak tidak menunjukkan gejala berahi namun secara fisiologis estrus, terjadi akibat rendahnya nutrisi yang selanjutnya menyebabkan rendahnya konsentrasi hormon estrogen dalam darah. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengukur konsentrasi estrogen plasma pada kuda gayo silent heat pasca partus sebelum dan setelah terapi menggunakan vitamin A, D, E secara intramuskular. Empat ekor kuda gayo betina yang didiagnosis silent heat pasca partus dibagi menjadi dua kelompok yaitu kelompok kontrol (K1) hanya diinjeksi NaCl dan kelompok terapi (K2) diinjeksi dengan vitamin A, D, E. Sampel plasma darah dikoleksi sebelum dan setelah terapi selama tujuh hari untuk selanjutnya dianalisis konsentrasi hormon estrogen menggunakan metode enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Data sebelum dan sesudah terapi dianalisis menggunakan paired sample t-test dan data antar kelompok dilaporkan secara deskriptif. Hasilnya diperoleh konsentrasi estrogen kuda gayo silent heat pasca partus pada K1 tidak berbeda nyata (P>0,05) sebelum dan setelah injeksi NaCl (251,71 ± 57,90 vs 255,56 ± 84,14 pg/ml), sementara pada K2 terdapat perbedaan yang nyata (P

Silent heat is a condition in which livestock does not show symptoms of heat but physiologically estrus occurs due to low nutrition which in turn causes low concentrations of the hormone estrogen in the blood. This study aims to measure plasma estrogen concentrations in postpartum silent heat Gayo horses before and after therapy using vitamins A, D, E intramuscularly. Four Gayo mares diagnosed with postpartum silent heat were divided into two groups the control group (K1) was only injected with NaCl and the therapy group (K2) was injected with vitamins A, D, E. Blood plasma samples were collected before and after therapy for seven days, which then analyzed for estrogen hormone concentrations using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method. Data before and after therapy were analyzed using paired sample t-test and data between groups were reported descriptively. The results showed that the estrogen concentration of postpartum silent heat Gayo horses in K1 was not significantly different (P>0.05) before and after NaCl injection (251.71 ± 57.90 vs 255.56 ± 84.14 pg/ml), while there was a significant difference in K2 (P