Major causes and abnormalities of organ condemnation and financial loss in cattle slaughtered at Dessie municipal abattior South Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

A cross sectional active and retrospective abattoir survey was undertaken from November 2013 to April 2014, on cattle slaughtered at Dessie municipal abattoir with the aim of identifying the major causes of organ condemnation, risk factors for organ condemnation and estimating the financial loss attributed to the condemned organs in cattle slaughtered at Dessie municipal abattoir, North-East part of Ethiopia. Of the total 768 examined animals, abnormalities were detected in 82 (10.68%) during ante mortem inspection and 430 (55.99%) were animals from which organ condemned during postmortem inspection. From the total cattle slaughtered, 311 (40.49%) livers, 142 (18.49%) lungs, 39 (5.08%) kidneys, 34 (4.43%) hearts and 6 (0.78%) tongues were condemned due to various causes. Hydatidosis (22.13%), fasciolosis (20.18%) and cirrhosis (8.85%), hepatitis (4.43%), pneumonia (3.25%), abscess (2.6%), pericarditis (2.08%), edema (1.82%), hydronephrosis (1.43%), nephritis (1.04%) were the major identified causes from the lesions responsible for the rejection of organs. Statistically significant difference in organ condemnation rate was found between age (p = 0.000), body condition score (p = 0.000) and origin (p = 0.013) of animals. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the two breeds although there was higher condemnation rate of organ in cross breed cattle. In the study, fasciolosis and hydatidosis were the major causes of organs condemnation. The direct financial loss from organ condemnation due to various reasons was estimated to be 122,617.70 Ethiopian Birr (6,288.08 USD) per annum. Hence, commencement and implementation of prevention and control measures are must so as to secure from the financial loss they cause.

Major Causes of Organ Condemnation and Estimated Financial Loss in Dromedary Camels Slaughtered at Jigjiga Municipal Abattoir, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia

“…This finding agreed with the report of lowland has higher prevalence than midland and highland [8] in Luna Export abattoir. While, this result disagreed with the report of Yalew [29] high prevalence rate for highland than midland and lowland from Dessie municipal abattoir. For origin there was no statistically significant different (P>0.05).…”

“…This finding of the current study was also higher than the reports of 1,839,760.00 ETB/99,446.49USD, 182,448.9 ETB/ 8365.38 USD by Biressaw and Deneke [59,24], Dire dawa municipal abattoir, and Assella municipal abattoir respectively. Moreover, the result was higher than the reports of 122,617.70 ETB/6,288.08 USD, 80,470.37 ETB/3,688.988 USD, [29,20] from Dire dawa municipal abattoir, and from Dissie municipal abattoir. Variations in the amount of economic lost in different abattoirs probably due to the differences in the prevalence of diseases, rejection rate of organs, slaughtering capacity of the abattoirs, local market price of organs and management, of animals [32].…”

Co-infection of fasciolosis and hydatidosis and their financial loss in cattle slaughtered at Wolaita Sodo municipal abattoir, southern Ethiopia

“…These results were approximately in line with the report from Kenya at 8% (Kithuka et al 2002). However, this finding was lower than the prevalence of fasciolosis, which was 24.32% at the Mekelle municipal abattoir (Berhe et al 2011), 20.18% at the Dessie municipal abattoir (Yalew et al 2016), 24.29% at the Butajira Municipal Abattoir (Kerala et al 2021), and 23.41% from the Zaria abattoir (Raji et al 2010). This difference could be attributed to variations in animal sources.…”