Abstract

A CASE REPORT ON HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS INFESTATION IN AVIKALIN FEMALE SHEEP

Manish Kumar*, Shahid Prawez, Ramadevi Nimanapalli and Priya Ranjan Kumar

Abstract

Sheep can be reared as free range or under house inside a shed. It is a very important component in dry land farming system. With very low investment sheep farming can be made in to a profitable venture for small and marginal farmers and landless labourers. Haemonchus contortus is singly the most important of all the gastrointestinal nematodes that constrain the survival and productivity of sheep and goats in developing country like India. H. contortus is prominent amongst the reports of anthelmintic resistance that has emerged in all countries of the world that produce small ruminants. In present case report sheep was showing the swelling of lower jaw (bottle jaw), anaemic and weak. All symptoms were correlated to the bottle jaw conditions and treatment was done accordingly. As a treatment anthelmentic, antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, B-complex with liver extract, anti-histaminic etc. were given for five days and sheep was recovered.

Keywords: Haemonchus contortus, anthelmentic, antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, B-complex.