A sample survey of foreign bodies in fore-stomachs of abattoir buffaloes

摘要

Lack of oral discrimination in cattle and buffalo leads to ingestion of foreign bodies and the incidence may be as high as 90 percent in industrial area of which 70 percent may have residual lesions and 25 percent are as risk of clinical illness (Radostits et al., 1994). The present paper incorporates the results of a slaughter house survey, conducted in 1996-97 in Mathura district. Out of 305 buffaloes, autopsied for fore-stomachs, 96 (31.5 percent) were found to harbour the foreign bodies (Fig-1), which comprised of sundries (21.8 percent), nut bolts (20.5 percent), plastic bags (18.5 percent), nails (11.2 percent), coins (8.7 percent), metal scrap (5.8 percent), keys (4.9 percent), electric wires (1.9 percent) and chains and glass beads (1.5 percent each). It was revealed that 25.7 percent foreign bodies were of penetrating nature and a high percentage of non-biodegradable non-metallic bodies (74.5 percent) reflected the threat to environmental pollution in addition to animal health. Variableresults have been obtained for the hard ware syndrome else where. (Mishra and Angelo, 1984, Muslih et al., 1987).