This study includes isolation and identif ication of the larval stage Cyst icercus tenuico llis of dog's cestoda thin neck Taenia hydatigena from slaughtered animals in Basrah abattoir. A total of 180 sheeps and 90 goats were determined by sex and examined during six months of study from January to June 2009. The diameter of al ive cysts and the amount of liquid were measured. The total amount ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that the design of the water dispensers can influence the water intake in farm animals. Horses and dairy cows seem to prefer to drink from an open surface whereas sheep and pigs apparently prefer water nipples, probably because of the worse water quality in water bowls. The aim of the present study was to examine the preference of dairy goats for water ...

Aqiqah is the Islamic tradition of sacrifice an animal on occasion a child’s birth. It widely performed by Muslim and it considered sunnah to slaughter one goat or sheep for baby girl two goats sheeps boy. Goat livestock’s commodity that could be managed into profitable Aqiqah’s business. As time goes on, business sprung up lot. The existence similar can opportunity threat company. Therefore, c...

Background Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a disease caused by the bacteria Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis which affects small ruminants such as sheeps and goats, leading to severe economic losses. The development of more sensitive and specific diagnoses showing effectiveness on asymptomatic animals is essential for disease’s control. This study purposes the use of the recombinant protein CP...

368 blood and Carcass randomly sampled from slaughtered animals for detection Toxoplasmosis. The blood samples were examined for existence Infection by serological method (Dye test) and the tissue samples from different parts of carcass including skeletal muscle, diaphragm, heart, liver and lymphnode, which ground in an electric grinder and digested by pepsin. Bioassay technique and inoculated...

N. GUNES, D. ARSOY, M. AKTAS, S. OZUBEK, M. OZUICLI, L. AYDIN and O. SELCUK, 2016. Changes in some biochemical parameters in small ruminant theileriosis. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 22: 303–307 The aim of this study was to determine changes in some biochemical parameters in the healthy and infected sheeps and goats with Theileriosis. Sixty-fi ve sheep and 67 goats were used in the study. Blood sample...

According to Nickel et al., (1979), diffuse lymphocytic accumulations in the tongue of domestic animals were grouped under tonsillar tissue. The lingual tonsil was limited to the root of the tongue in sheeps (Cocquyt et al., 2005), horses (Kumar and Timoney, 2005b) and bovines (Cocquyt et al., 2008). This tonsil is involved in processing antigens because of its close association with diffuse ly...

Brucellosis is a disease that generally occurs in animals such as cows, pigs, dogs, cattles and goats. Brucella are gram negative, non-motile, non-spore forming coccobacilli bacteria (Dr Delia Skan, August 2004). The genus Brucella comprises at least 8 species named according to the preferred mammal hosts (Maria-Jesus Grillo, 2012). B.melitensis, B.abortus, B.suis and B.canis are the most impor...