Ciência e Tecnologia Veterinária

Prevalence of Gross Urogenital Lesions and Abnormalities in Female Goats Slaughtered at Dire Dawa Municipal Abattoir, Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

Mohammed Jemal and Tesfaheywet Zeryehun

A cross sectional study was carried out from November, 2017 to April, 2018 to estimate the prevalence of urogenital tracts/organs lesions and abnormalities in female goats slaughter at Dire Dawa Municipal Abattoir, Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia. Morpho-pathological lesions and abnormalities of reproductive and urinary tracts of a total 384 female goat were examined by incision and macroscopic examination via visual inspection and palpation. The study showed that there was an overall occurrence 17.4% of reproductive and urinary organ/tract abnormalities. Out this total of prevalence of 9.9% genital organ abnormalities were identified, among which ovarian hypoplasia was the reproductive abnormality with the highest occurrence (34.2%). And a total of 7.6% of occurrence of urinary lesion and abnormalities were examined. Renal calculi were the urinary organ abnormality with the highest occurrence (41.4%). The present study revealed that 9.1% were found pregnant out of 384 female goats slaughtered at Dire Dawa abattoir due to lack of accurate ante-mortem inspection. The difference in the prevalence of urogenital tracts/ organs lesions and abnormalities with regard to age of animals was statistically significant (p<0.05), but the difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05) with regard to the body condition of goat. It can be concluded that morpho-pathological lesions are prevalent in goats that are brought to the abattoirs in the study area, which requires serious attention.