Abstract
Surgical diseases are common in goats and exert serious negative effects on animal's growth, productivity, and survivability leading to huge economic loss. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of different surgical diseases of goats and to elucidate the seasonal impact leading to temporal distribution of these diseases in Trishal, Muktagacha and Fulbaria of Mymensingh, Bangladesh between the years 2009 to 2019. A total of 3744 goats were documented in all three Upazila. The overall prevalence was found to be 34.18% (1280/3744) in Fulbaria, 32.69% (1224/3744) in Muktagacha, 33.11% (1240/3744) in Trishal. The prevalence of different surgical affections in Fulbaria included: wounds 30.54%, gid 23.28%, urolithiasis 16.09%, bloat 9.06%, fracture 8.99%, lymphadenitis 6.48%, tumor 4.06% and gangrenous mastitis 0.94%; in Muktagacha these were wounds 30.83%, gid 23.08%, urolithiasis 19.98%, bloat 9.89%, fracture 9.06%, lymphadenitis 6.59%, tumor 3.70% and gangrenous mastitis 0.75%; in Trishal these were wounds 28.28%, gid 23.60%, urolithiasis 17.20%, bloat 9.12%, fracture 8.96%, lymphadenitis 6.88%, tumor 3.76% and gangrenous mastitis 0.80%. There was a somewhat similar temporal distribution pattern of the diseases in the study area. The study revealed that rainfall, relative humidity, and ambient temperature have a distinct influence on the occurrence and distribution of various surgical diseases and disorders. Prompt surgical intervention is recommended as most of the diseases are curable, and this will reduce the economic loss of the farmers.
Highlights
Surgical diseases are common in goats and exert serious negative effects on animal's growth, productivity, and survivability leading to huge economic loss
Goats often suffer from a wide variety of surgical affections; e.g. gid disease, wound, urolithiasis, lymphadenitis, subcutaneous cyst, fracture, myiasis, bloat, and so on and all these are curable if surgical intervention is performed
Considering the importance of goat to the economies of Bangladesh, and the negative implications of surgical affections on its productivity and reproductivity, this study is aimed to determine the prevalence of surgical diseases and disorders and to deduce the effect of seasonal changes on the prevalence of these diseases in Fulbaria, Muktagacha and Trishal, Mymensingh district of Bangladesh
Summary
Surgical diseases are common in goats and exert serious negative effects on animal's growth, productivity, and survivability leading to huge economic loss. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of different surgical diseases of goats and to elucidate the seasonal impact leading to temporal distribution of these diseases in Trishal, Muktagacha and Fulbaria of Mymensingh, Bangladesh between the years 2009 to 2019. They expand physical resources, supplying households with transportation, draught power, and renewable energy to sustain and boost their productivity Fifth, they increase family financial resources, provide an investment mechanism, and act as liquid assets, or as credit collateral, to protect livelihood goals. An integral component of the agricultural economy of Bangladesh performing multifarious functions such as provisions of food, nutrition, income, and savings (Talukdar et al, 2005) This economic importance is primarily associated with their small size, as it favors low investment, small risk of loss, and their high reproductive efficiency (Omoike, 2006). The knowledge of the pattern of disease occurrence is essential as it suggests a period of likely occur
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