Tranquillization of goats was performed on fifteen animals. The clinical symptoms as well as the blood picture were observed and recorded using different doses of the drug. The higher the dose given the longer was the sedation period.
By using higher doses of the durg, the observed symptoms during sedation period were : recumbency, sleeping. salivation, moaning. tympany, fluctuating body temperature and dropped respiratory and pulse rates. All animals became apparantly normal 4 hours post-injection.
There was a marked decrease in the total number of erythro cytes, leucocytes and ha moglobin content, half hour post-inj.ction, The percentage of lymphocytes and eosinophils was decreased, while that of neutrophils was increased. The blood picture returned back to its initial levels within 24 hours post-injection