A study on the rate and Variations in sheep abomasal parasites performed in the slaughterhouse of khoy province

Subject Areas : clinical veterinary science

S.  Rasouli, ¹ (Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)
مرتضی  kalbKhani, ² (Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)
امین  Hashempoor, ³ (Young Researchers Club, Urmia branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran)
N.  Ghorbanzadeh, ⁴ (Faculty of veterinary medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran)

Received: 2016-11-03 Accepted : 2016-11-03 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: Sheep, Parasite, abomasums, Khoy province,

Abstract :

Parasitic infestations are the most current diseases in animals, it not only has direct effect on animal’s healthbut also makes them vulnerable to catch other bacterial and viral diseases and even in most animals it even cancause death. This study was conducted to evaluate sheep abomasums infestations in Khoy slaughterhouse fromwinter of 1388 to the end of spring of 1389, and about 76 abomasums were assessed. During the study sampleswere gathered in several times abomasums were separated from the rest of the Animal’s body and parasites wereseparated by sedimentation method.This study was carried out to evaluate parasitic infestations of the abomasums of sheep in Khoy slaughterhouseduring a 12 months period, in 131 samples taken from sheep 26 samples (19/84 %) Ostertagia(16 OstertagiaOstertagi and 10 Ostertagia Circumsincta),12 samples (9/16 %) marshalagia marshali and 22 samples (16/79 %)were infested to hemoncos contortos In this study, 6 of the abomasums had jointly Ostertagia Ostertagi, OstertagiaCircumsincta and Marshalagia marshali and in 3 infested. cases causative agents were diagnosed as Marshalagiamarshali and hemoncos contortos , and fnally 71 (54/19 %) abomasums had no parasitic infesttion of any kind andtotally 60 sample (45/81) from 131 samples was positive.