عزل و تشخيص بعض الطفيليات الخارجية و الداخلية في الدجاج المحلي بمحافظة ديالى

Abstract EN

The study was conducted in several areas of Diyala province for the period of December 2012 to March of the 2013.

A number of 107 native chickens from different areas of the province included (Baquba, Shahraban, Khan Bani Saad, and Canaan) were examined to investigate the ecto and endo-parasites on the scattered private chickens farms in the province.

The total rate of infection was 41.18%.

The highest rate of ectoparasites infestation in chickens was 22.42% compared to internal parasites which reached to 17.75%.

The tapeworms recorded rate 13.08%, while the filamentous nematodes reached lower rate of 4.67%.

One genus of filamentous nematodes and one genus of tapeworm that infect the digestive tract of poultry and two genera of chewing lice which parasitic on the chicken skin and feathers were diagnosed in a rate of (13.08, 4.67, 22.42)% respectively, and the highest rate where in Baquba 51.72%, followed by Shahraban and Canaan rate of (38.88, 36)% respectively, while the lowest rate in Bani Saad 34.28%.

The study showed the presence of four types of parasites which are Cotugina spp.

at a rate of 12.14 % and Heterakis gallinarum in rate of 4.67 %, while the genus Menacanthus stramines recorded a rate 18.64%.

However, the ratios in the external parasites of the genus Campanulotes bidentatus comopare 4.67% from the total domestic chickens infested in the province with significant differences under the level of significance p <0.05.