Prevalence of umbilical hernia of calves and its risk factors at Tangail Sadar of Bangladesh (original) (raw)
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This study was done to investigate the prevalence of umbilical hernia of calves and its risk factors during the period from July, 2012 to January, 2013 at Tangail Sadar Upazila of Bangladesh. A total number of 1053 animals were examined during the study period where diagnosis based on the clinical history, clinical signs, palpation, needle puncture, auscultation. Then the animals was subdivided into some risk factors such as age, sex, breed, history of umbilical infection which may be lead to umbilical hernia. It was observed that male (61.10%) were in more risk than that of female (38.90%). In case of male calves maximum occurrence of the disease were in the age group of 1-3 months (45.45%) followed by <01 month of age group (36.36%) and least occur in 3-6 months of age group (18.18%) and in case of female calves maximum occur in the age of 1-3 months (71.43%) followed by in the age group of <01 month and 3-6 months (14.29%). The occurrence of umbilical hernia was more common...
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The present study was conducted on 30 calves affected with umbilical hernia at Veterinary Teaching Hospitals, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh. The calves were divided into 2 groups; group–I (n=15) and group–II (n=15) to study the comparative efficacy of open and close method of herniorrhaphy for the correction of umbilical hernia. Out of these 30 calves, 8 were indigenous and 22 were crossbred and their ages ranged from 3 days to 6 months. Nineteen of the experimental animals were male and 11 were female. The effect of age, sex, breed and season on the occurrence of umbilical hernia in calves was investigated. Calves of 1-3 months age group demonstrated the highest incidence (46.67%) while those of 3-6 months the lowest (23.33%). Umbilical hernia occurred mostly in male calves (63.33%) as compared to their female counterparts (36.67%). The cross bred calves were predominantly (73.33%) affected as compared to the indigenous (26.67%). Umbilical hernia was the most...
Journal of Bangladesh Agricultural University, 2018
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