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Wach J. , Nowicki W. , Kirkiłło-Stacewicz K. , Brudnicki A. , Skoczylas B. , Brudnicki W. 2018. THE EFFECT OF SEX AND MAINTENANCE ON MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF STOMACH IN FALLOW DEER (DAMA DAMA)
DOI:10.30825/5.ejpau.79.2018.21.3, EJPAU 21(3/volume21), #04.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume21/issue3/volume21/abs-04.html

ABSTRACT

The study was carried out on 116 individuals of European fallow deer (Dama dama), including 58 free-living animals and 58 farm animals. The age of the fallow deer was 1.5 to 3 years. Carcasses of free-living animals were used, acquired as a result of culling, while carcasses of farm animals were provided by a deer farm. Out of the individuals from each maintenance method, a group of does and a group of bucks were isolated. The aim of the study was to determine and compare the values of metric features of the stomach as a whole and its individual chambers in two different European fallow deer populations (Dama dama) i.e. living in a natural hunting ground and kept in a farm system. Measurements of stomach capacities were made on the material not fixed according to Kwaśnicki's method. The results of the study showed that the metric features of the fallow deer stomach are largely dependent on the maintenance and sex. Significant differences in total gastric capacity and its individual chambers were observed.

Key words: carcass, stomach, fallow deer, maintenance.

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Jan Wach
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: janwach82@poczta.onet.pl

Włodzimierz Nowicki
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: wlodek_novika@interia.eu

Krzysztof Kirkiłło-Stacewicz
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: krzysztof.stacewicz@o2.pl

Adam Brudnicki
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: brudnicki.adam@gmail.com

Benedykt Skoczylas
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: anat@utp.edu.pl

Witold Brudnicki
Department of Animal Physiology, Zoophysiotherapy and Feeding, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bernardyńska 6
85-029 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: anat@utp.edu.pl

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