INTAS POLIVET
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  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Surgical management of ruminal obstruction due to indigestible materials in a goat

  • Author:
  • Mousam Das1,, Devi Prasad Isore2, Sabyasachi Konar3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 108 to 109

1Ph. D. Scholar West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS) 37, K.B. Sarani, Belgachia, Kolkata-700037 (West Bengal)

2Assistant Professor West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS) 37, K.B. Sarani, Belgachia, Kolkata-700037 (West Bengal)

3Ph. D. Scholar, Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS) 37, K.B. Sarani, Belgachia, Kolkata-700037 (West Bengal)

Department of Veterinary Microbiology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS) 37, K.B. Sarani, Belgachia, Kolkata-700037 (West Bengal)

*Corresponding author E-mail: dasmousam001@gmail.com

Online published on 5 November, 2018.

Abstract

A free range goat was presented with compliant of distended abdomen. The distended rumen didn't reduce even after rumen puncture and was diagnosed as indigestible foreign material present in rumen. Rumenotomy was undertaken and 4.2 kg foreign material with undigested foreign bodies was removed. Animal recovered there after.

Keywords

Goat, indigestiable material, obstruction, rumen