SHORT COMMUNICATION INCIDENCE OF REPRODUCTIVE ABNORMALITIES AMONG SLAUGHTER HOUSE ANIMALS IN PORT HARCOURT CITY

Abstract

Ante- and postmortem examinations were employed in a survey of the incidence of
reproductive abnormalities of livestock. The study, centred in Port Harcourt city main
abattoir for three months, subjected slaughter animals to intensive gross examination.
Among the 2148 animals studied, 1.07'%1 had reproductive affections. The relative
proportions of affections within species were as follows -cattle (1.40'%1; P.26Uh~), goat
(7.85'%); 0.25'%,) s wine (0.38'%10, .65'51). Specific affections encountered ixluded cryptorchidism,
orchitis, phimosis, testicular hypoplasia, vaginitis and vulvo-vaginitis, mastitis
and uterus-unicornis. The importance of health, selection and breeding of indigenous
tivestock has been highlighted