Occurrence of fungi in poultry farms

Forty (40) samples comprising of feed and litter of poultry farms collected in and arund Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh were investigated for mycoflora of fungi. Species wise distribution of fungal isolates from poultry farm was Aspergillus fumigatus (21 isolate), Aspergillus flavus (12 isolates), Aspergillus niger (18 isolates), Aspergillus terreus (4 isolates), Mucor (7 isolates), Rhizopus (17 isolates), Candida (5 isolates), Trichosporon (5 isolates), Penicillum (3 isolates). Aspergillus was the most prominent fungal isolates in feed samples. The genera Aspergillus had the highest frequency of isolation (60%) followed by Mucor (7.5%) Candida (5.2%), Rhizopus (18%), Trichosporon (5.3%) and Penicillium (3.2%) Occurrence of fungi showed that feed and litter samples from poultry farms possess high fungal load.