A STUDY ON POSSIBLE CAUSES OF GOAT MORTALITY IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF CHITTAGONG DISTRICT

Abstract

The study was undertaken on 313 native goats to investigate the possible causes of mortality in five union of Sitakunda upazilla in Chittagong district for a period of 30 days starting from October 20 to November 18, 2008. Information was collected through a questionnaire by direct interviewing with the goat owners. It was observed that mortality was 35.15%, 34.18% and 30.67% in the study area for kid, adult male and adult female goat respectively. Among 110 kids 40.90% died of pneumonia and 27.27% died of diarrhoea. Other prevalent causes of mortality were PPR, coccidiosis, poisoning and predator. Similarly, adult females and males died of infectious diseases i.e. PPR (female 46.87%, male 46.72%), diarrhoea (female 20.83%, male 14.02%), pneumonia (female 15.63%, male 20.56%), coccidiosis (female 5.2%, male 6.54%). Among the non-infectious diseases, dystocia (7.2%) was prevalent. Maximum percentage of mortality occurred in winter season (50.44%). It may therefore be inferred that maximum mortality of goat occurred in Sitakunda upazilla due to prevalence of goat pneumonia and PPR.