PATHOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTAL MOLYBDENOSIS IN GOATS

Molybdenosis was induced in 20 goats of 5-7 months of age. The two tre atment groups of 8 goats each were drenched daily ammonium molybdate s olution to provide molybdenum @ 50 and 100 ppm of feed intake on dry-m atter basis for 235 days. Four goats of control group received placebo distilled water. Gross lesions were general debility and depigmentati on of hair coat. The microscopic changes included loss of melanin pigm ent from the hair cortex and medulla haemosiderosis of lymphnodes, spl een, liver, lungs and intestines, degenerative changes in the liver, s keletal muscles and testes, colloidal goitre and arrested bone growth.