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Epidemiological studies on forestomach
disorders in cattle and buffaloes - A. K. Sharma, P. S.
Dhaliwal and C. S. Randhawa
Veterinary World, 8(9): 1063-1067
doi:
10.14202/vetworld.2015.1063-1067
A.
K. Sharma:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and
Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India;
ashwanigadvasu@gmail.com
P.
S. Dhaliwal:
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and
Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India;
dhaliwalpps@yahoo.com
C.
S. Randhawa: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Guru Angad Dev
Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab,
India;
singhcharanjit11@gmail.com
Received: 12-05-2015, Revised: 29-07-2015, Accepted: 10-08-2015,
Published online: 15-09-2015
Corresponding author:
A. K. Sharma, e-mail: ashwanigadvasu@gmail.com
Citation:
Sharma AK, Dhaliwal
PS, Randhawa CS (2015) Epidemiological studies on forestomach
disorders in cattle and buffaloes, Veterinary World 8(9):
1063-1067.
Abstract
Aim:
To study epidemiology of forestomach (reticuloruminal, omasal,
and abomasal) disorders in cattle and buffaloes.
Materials and Methods: The 106 buffaloes and 32 cattle
referred for treatment to the university large animals teaching
hospital with the complaint of gastrointestinal diseases
constituted the study material. The cases were diagnosed based on
history, clinical examination, hematology, biochemistry,
radiography, peritoneal fluid analysis and ultrasonography,
rumenotomy, and postmortem. A questionnaire was prepared
containing important information on housing, husbandry practices,
including feeding practices and individual animal information
viz. age, species, month of the year, parity, gestation
(month), and recent parturition. The animals were divided into
eight groups and analysis of variance was performed to study risk
factors associated with each condition.
Results: The forestomach disorders are widely prevalent in
cattle and buffaloes between April and October, during summer and
rainy season (90%) and constituted a significant proportion of
diseased cows and buffaloes (138/1840) at the hospital. Different
forestomach disorders and their prevalence was: Diaphragmatic
hernia (DH) 17%, traumatic reticuloperitonitis (TRP) 14%,
idiopathic motility disorder or vagus indigestion (VI) 22%,
adhesive peritonitis (AP) 13%, frank exudative peritonitis (FEP)
12%, reticular abscess (RA) 8%, ruminal and omasal impaction (RI)
5%, and abomaso duodenal ulceration (ADU) 9%. DH and RA were
significantly more common in buffaloes as compared to cattle.
Similarly, impactions were more in buffaloes but its incidence was
very low (5%). ADU was present in buffalo as commonly as in cows.
Exclusive feeding of wheat straw was present in an abysmally low
number of animals and hence could not be considered the cause of
these disorders. DH was significantly higher in buffaloes (>5
years) of 5-8 years of age and TRP, VI and AP were observed in
cattle and buffalo of 2-8 years of age during the second half of
gestation to 1 month post-calving. FEP (12%) occurred more
commonly within 1 month of parturition.
Conclusions: DH, TRP, frank and AP and ADU are causes of the
widely prevalent forestomach (reticuloruminal, omasal and abomasal)
disorders in cattle and buffaloes.
Keywords: abomaso duodenal ulcerations, diaphragmatic hernia,
forestomach, incidence, reticulum, rumen, traumatic
reticuloperitonitis.
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