BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TICKS IN SMALL SCALE DAIRY FARMS IN THE SUDAN | ||
| Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 13, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 199-201 PDF (161.87 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajs.2008.14636 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hassabo A A* | ||
| Faculty of Agricultural Technology & Fish Sciences of Elneelain, University, Khartoum, Sudan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Twenty dairy cows belonged to four small holder were put under study, to investigate the efficiency of using scavenger chicken (baladi) as biological control of ticks and their borne diseases. The cows were divided to two groups first and second, they were infested with ticks, Laboratory diagnosis for babesia was carried out. All samples showed positive reaction. Cloxon 2.5 gm/kg/ body weight (BW) was used to treat the cows of the two groups with the presence of ticks, and all cases were recovered. Gamatox was used to control the ticks on the cows in the first group, while scavenger chicken (5 baladi chicken in each farm), were used to control ticks in the second two farms. After seven days no tick was observed on the cows in the second group. It also showed negative result for babesia test. On the other hand, nymphs were noticed on the cows of the first group. The research recom-mended to use scavenger chicken to terminate the life cycle of ticks and to get rid of its pathogenic diseases in small scale dairy farms. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| biological control; Rhipicephallus; Pathogency; Baladi chicken; Cloxon; Hyalomma; Amblyomma | ||
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