GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTS OF CATTLE IN SEMI INTENSIVE BREEDING AT BELGRADE AREA

Abstract

The spread area of Belgrade has extremely favorable conditions for modern agricultural production (climate, agricultural land, watercourses, developed processing industry). This economic branch is of strategic importance for supplying Belgrade with food products, along with the resources that abound in the wider environment (Vojvodina and Šumadija). There are numerous villages here, where households keep cattle in small herds or mini-farm, usually in semi-intensive breeding. During our study performed on 2018 we examined faeces of 190 cattle from 42 herds and 29 cattle by post-mortem examination. Determination of eggs and adult parasites performed on their morphological characteristics. The coprological examination established the presence of gastrointestinal helminth eggs in 39.6% of samples. The majority of cattle were infected with two and fewer number with three or four parasite species. At post mortem examination of cattle we found Haemonchus contortus we occured in 57,53%, Ostertagia ostertagi in 55,63%, Trichonstrongylus axeis in 49.37%, Cooperia oncophora in 32.57%, Ostertagia trifurcata in 29.79%, Oesophagostomum radiatum 21.22%, Toxocara vitulorum17.52%, Dicocelium dendriticum 15.26%, Paramphistomum ichikawai in 14.21%, Strongyloides papillosus 11.51%, Moniezia benedeni in 9.47% and Trichuris discolor in 6.52%.