VARIABILITY OF SOME HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICES ACCORDING TO THE SEX AND AGE OF SPORT HORSES

Abstract

The stuffy was conducted on 24 sport horses in best shape as result of the previous intensive training sessions. The variability of the haematological parameters was monitored in relation to the individual physiological particularities of age and sex before and after the routine training sessions. The adult horses displayed after the training exercise a 32.4% increase of the erythrocytes count, a 29.4% increase of the neutrophils count and a 23% increase of the hematocrit; the lymphocytes count decreased by 14.3%. The erythrocytes count increased after the training exercise by 18.5% in males horses and by 16.6% in female horses, the hematocrit increased by 20% in the make horses and by 16% in the female horses, while the N/L ratio increased by 56% in the males and by 26% in the females.

Keywords

• sport horse
• adaptative capacity
• haematological indices