دراسة تأثير عمر الأم في بعض مقاييس الجسم عند أمهر الخيول العربية السورية الأصيلة

Abstract EN

The aim of this Sudy was to investigate the effect of dam age on body measurements in pure-Arabian Syrian foals.

Data from 40 foals were collected from Basel Stud for Purebred Arabian Horses.

Withers height, Chest girth, Croup height, Chest depth, Body line, Back line length, Neck circumference, Croup wide and Chest wide were measured to give the beS description for growth rate, in 6 months old foals.

Data were divided into two groups: Foals belonging to mothers aged 5 to 6 years, and belonging to mothers aged 7 years and older.

General liner model (GLM) has been used to study the effect of dam age on body measurements and the comparative were made between means by (LSD) test.

The Significance was teSed at 5% level.

The results showed a significant effect (P<0.05) of Dam age on the growth rate of Arabian pure-bred Foals, and the studied of body measurements except Chest Width, Body Length and Neck circumference of Foals that born from older mares had the higher measurements.

As a conclusion, mares at 7 years old or more could be used in order to get the births with the best rate of growth within the conditions of care at the center of the Martyr Basil al-Assad in Syria.