COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PREVALANCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOPARASITES IN INSTITUTIONAL HERDS OF NILI RAVI BUFFALO

Abstract

Gastrointestinal endoparasites have a great impact on livestock production. Currentresearch is conducted to realize the proper prevalence of gastrointestinal parasitical incursion in threeinstitutional buffalo herds in the Punjab Province. A total of 758 fecal samples were examined in farmand health laboratory, Buffalo Research Institute for a time duration of one year (July 2017 to June2018) from three institutional herds. The fecal samples collected from Livestock experiment stationBhunikey, Chak katora and Haroonabad were 227,208 and 323 respectively. Out of which 311 (41.02%) were found positive and different for parasites during the current duration of study. Thepervasiveness of different parasites including trematodes, nematodes, and diverse infestation inbuffaloes at Livestock Experiment Station Bhunikey was 25.50% (58/227), 14.90%(34/227), and4.80%(11/227) , while at Livestock Experiment Station Chak Katora it was 19.81%(64/323),17.64%(57/323) and 3.7%(12/323) percent respectively. Livestock Experiment Station Haroonabadshowed the prevalence of trematodes, nematodes and mixed infections as 24.51 %( 51/208), 6.70 %(14/208) and 4.80 %( 10/208). Maximum prevalence was observed from November to February(trematodes 24.01%, nematodes 13.81% and mixed infestation 3.4%) while minimum parasitism wasobserved from July to October (trematodes 20%, nematodes 3.5% and mixed infestation 1.2%). Thestudy that is conducted has varied results revealed that the occurrence of different gastrointestinalparasites in buffaloes is quite severe causing economical losses by reducing milk production. Bykeeping focus on this factor, a proper planned and strategic way of treatment and control program maybe designed to cover and control gastrointestinal parasitic contagions in buffaloes.