Microplastics in Small Ruminants II

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the presence of microplastics in goats in one of the cantons, in the province of Manabí, Ecuador; the unit of analysis was goat feces (Capra aegagrus hircus), the type of research used was field, non-experimental, observational, transversal, descriptive and analytical. In this study, 100 fecal samples were collected for the purpose of processing them in the laboratory of the Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia This was done using two types of techniques. The procedure to follow was to leave them in the incubator for 4 hours at a temperature of 37.5 °C with the help of a glass pipette, a drop of the sample was taken and placed on the slide and then covered with a glass plate coverslip and finally observe it under a microscope with a 10x objective. Obtaining as a result a prevalence of 93% with the supersaturated saline solution and 100% of potassium hydroxide solution to a 10% in the presence of microplastics in the analyzed samples. Regarding the sex variable, statistical significance was found in females corresponding to a free grazing system. It is important to keep in mind in future research the toxicity and its impact on the health that may affect goats.