An abattoir survey on bovine sole diseases prevalence in Urmia province

Subject Areas : clinical veterinary science

A. Najafpour. ¹ , .F Jafar Gholizadeh ²

1 - Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Urmia branch, Iran
2 - Graduated from the faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University Urmia branch, Urmia – IRAN.

Received: 2016-11-02 Accepted : 2016-11-02 Published : 2010-03-21

Keywords: Cow, Urmia, Abattoir, Sole diseases,

Abstract :

Lameness is one of the most important bovine diseases which after mastitis cause great economical impact on animalhusberdary. In this investigation, 4800 hooves were studed in Urmia’s Industrial slaughter house. 3071 of them wereinvolved with diseases of hoof which majority of it was heel erosion (%28.69) and the minorities were because ofinfections pododermatitis (%7.42) and the rest of hooves had no defects. Involvement ratio of each claw to each disease of the hoof of animals during spring season was higher in comparison to other seasons, although in winter it wasthe lowest. Lameness and other diseases which involve hoof of the animals are high in Urmia and early diagnosis ofsuch cases seems to be very important.