Major Causes of Organ and Carcass Condemnation and Its Financial Losses in Cattle Slaughtered at Wolaita Sodo Municipal Abattior, Snnprs, Ethiopia

Tigabu Korga Jalda

doi:10.7176/jhmn/74-04

Abstract

A cross sectional study was conducted from November 2017 to April 2018 with the objective of assessing the major causes and rate of organ/carcass condemnation and to estimate annual financial loses in cattle slaughtered at Wolaita Sodo Municipal Abattoir, SNNPR, Ethiopia. From all 368 cattle selected randomly and examined 165 (44.8%) and 120 (32.6%) showed both ante-mortem and postmortem abnormalities respectively. Conditions like lameness 52(14.1%), salivation 26(7.1%), branding 24(6.5%), diarrhea 20(5.4%) and rough hair 16(4.3%), lacrimation 10(2.7%), local swelling 8(2.2%) were the major recorded abnormalities in ante-mortem examination. In postmortem examination 65 (17.7%) livers, 41(11.1%/ 280.8kg) carcass due to bruise and abscess, 19(5.2%) lung, 4 (1.1%) hearts and 2 (0.5%) tongues was rejected due to various abnormalities. The major pathological lesions that caused organ condemnations were fasciola 47(12.8%), bruising 36(9.8%), calcification 10(2.7%), hydrated cyst 5(1.3%), abscessation 5(1.3%) and cysticercus bovis 5(1.3%). There was statistically significant association (p<0.05) between liver condemnation and body condition categories of animals. There was no statistical significance (P>0.05) between the origin and age of animals with the condemnation rate of different organs. The annual financial loss due to the rejection of organs and carcass of cattle slaughtered at Wolaita Sodo municipal abattoir was estimated approximately 148,643 ETB (5,505.3USD). This huge financial loss indicates that there should be appropriate disease prevention and control program in the study area. Keywords : Abattoir, Ante-mortem, Financial loss, Organ condemnation, Post-mortem DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/74-04 Publication date: May 31 st 2020

Highlights

The world human population is growing at faster rate than food production and this increase occurs mainly in developing countries with the rate of 2.4% per year (UN, 2017)
When compared with different research findings, it was so much greater than the reports by Assefa and Tesfaye (2013), (15.3%), Jatenie et al (2014) (1.9%), Moje et al (2014) (23.47%), Tefera et al (2016) (10.68%), Hussen et al (2017) (2.9%). It was agreed with the report by Agegn et al (2016) who reported as 38.54% from Bahir-Dar municipal abattoir
In relation with the previous studies in Wolaita and other abattoirs, the present study report of liver condemnation www.iiste.org was lower than the reports by Melese et al (2012) (34.23%), Abunna and Hordofa (2013) (39.68%), Moje et al (2014) (41.75%) and Maseresha et al (2016) (44.5%)

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Introduction

The world human population is growing at faster rate than food production and this increase occurs mainly in developing countries with the rate of 2.4% per year (UN, 2017). Developing countries have nearly 2/3(two third) of the world’s livestock population, but produce less than a third of the world’s meat and fifth of its milk (FAO, 1995). The GDP of livestock related activities valued at birr 59 billion (Metaferia et al, 2011) but according to Berhanu (2006), Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular, the level of ruminant livestock production doesn’t commensurate with its size. Meat in the slaughter house is condemned in order to break down the chain of zoonosis that are not directly transmitted by meat like hydatidosis, for aesthetic values caused by disease and mechanical damage at the slaughter house (Dejene et al, 2013)

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