Studies on Gastrointestinal Helminth Parasites of Gallus gallus Domesticus in Tribal Region Surgana, Nashik District, (MH)

Abstrct Present status not only in India but worldwide domesticated animals provide good financial support to farmers, out of these animals the gavthi chickens is the best domesticated fowl to be used for food. In this context, this project was studied on the gastrointestinal helminth parasites from different villages of gavthi chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) found in the tribal areas at Surgana tahsil of Nashik district, (MH), About 50 samples randomly were collected from slaughter house and local chicken market of some selected sites at Surgana tahsil. Where they study their habit and habitats most of the villages are the chickens feeding in dirty places such as bare, forested, dung, etc. Poultry breeds and gavthi breeds were completely different from their native chickens mostly feeding randomly around the village. The bread commonly called like gavthi /desi (local chicken) high number of parasites infections were seen among the in local chicken (gavthi). The cestodes and Nematodes were found in different hosts body, few are mixed infected. Helminth parasites were found them identified species is Choanotaenia infundibulum spp. Were gavthi chickens roughly with the cestodes parasites are more common observed. This study was also observed on their interactions between environment and their feeding free range around the houses and specially dirty sites, maximum samples was infected with the gastrointestinal helminth parasites.