Prevalence of rumen and reticulum indigestible foreign body in goat at Haramaya municipal Abattoir, Ethiopia

Author(s): Labib Ibrahim, Betelhem Mesfin and Atinafu Regasa

A cross sectional study was conducted on goat slaughtered at Haramaya municipal abattoir from February - August 2021 to determine the prevalence of foreign bodies in rumen and reticulum of goat and to assess the association of risk factors with the occurrence of foreign bodies. Postmortem examination was conducted for the recovery of foreign body from rumen and reticulum. A total of 384 goat were selected using simple random sampling method and of which 193 (50.26%) of them were found positive for indigestible foreign bodies in their rumen and reticulum. Risk factors such as age, body condition score and sex were taken into consideration. There was statistical significance difference between prevalence recorded in adult (49.34%) and old (54.97%, p=0.02). Statistical significant difference were recorded in poor (61.63%) and good body conditioned goat (43.36%, p=0.039). However, no statistical significance difference (P > 0.05) was observed in sex recorded for female (52.19%) and male (12%, p=0.79). The prevalence of plastics foreign body (46.88%) is higher followed by cloth (0.8%), rope (0.8%), wire (0.26), plastic and cloth (0.8) and plastic and rope (0.8). The prevalence of foreign body ingestion found in goat by this study show that the grazing areas were contaminated with plastic material, clothes, ropes, wire and other indigestible materials could pose serious health problem for free grazing animals. Awareness should be created on careless disposal of indigestible materials and the periodical cleaning of these wastes in the grazing area should be established in the study area.