Prevalence of Haemonchosis in Sheep slaughtered at Jimma hotel, Southwest, Ethiopia

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was carried out from April 2018- May 2018 to determine the prevalence of Haemonchuscontortus in sheep slaughtered at Jimma restaurants, south west Ethiopia. Appropriate procedure was applied for postmortem examination and sample collection. A total of 384 sheep Abomasums, collected from randomly selected sheep, were examined on postmortem. The overall prevalence of H. contortus was found to be 29.9%. It was noticed that high prevalence was recorded in animals with poor body condition (37.6%), followed by good body condition (23.07%) and the lowest was recorded in animals with medium body condition (22.6%). The occurrence of haemonchosis was more frequently recorded in youngest (less than one year) (28.5%) than in older (above one year) sheep (25.9%) but there was statistically significant difference (P<0.05) observed with the risk factor (age) in relation to the prevalence of H. contortus. However, there was no statistically significant difference (P>0.05) observed among the risk factor (body condition) in relation to the prevalence of H. contortus.