Evaluation of Tripple Deck Transportation in Indonesian Local Sheep under Hot Humid Tropical Environment Lendrawati (ab*) , Rudy Priyanto (a), Anuraga Jayanegara (a), Wasmen Manalu (a), Desrial (a)
a) Instititut Pertanian Bogor University Jalan Agatis Kampus Dramaga Bogor16680, Indonesia
* len1303[at]yahoo.com
b) Faculty of Animal Science Andalas University
Kampus Unand Limau Manis, Padang Indonesia
Abstract
Unavoidable transportation as supporting factor in the livestock business is known as one of common cause of stress in animal. This study was conducted to evaluate transportation with triple deck system on body weight and some physiological stress parameters under hot humid tropical environment. Thirty indonesian local sheeps was used in this study which divided into three groups, deck 1 (D1), deck 2 (D2) and deck 3 (D3) of ten animals of each treatment. All animal was transported for 18 hours by using Grand max open roof pick up (Japan). The ambient temperature and relative humidity during study fluctuated betwen 29 and 34o and 74 and 93%, which indicated that the season was thermally stressfull and not favor for sheep transport. The results showed that body weight loss during transport from 10.77% to 14.12% with recovery rate 12-15 days. There was a significant increse of cortisol, glucose and rectal temperature after transportation. Deck 1 treatmen had higher of body weigh loss, cortisol level and rectal temperature than Deck 2 and Deck 3. It can be concluded that tripple deck transportation under hot humid tropical affected on body weight and physiological of Indonesian local sheep.
