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- Title
EFFECTS OF NERIUM OLEANDER EXTRACT ON SCALY LEG MITES (KNEMIDOCOPTES MUTANS) IN BACK YARD CHICKENS.
- Authors
Ali, Aws El-Muntaser H.; Hasan, Akram Ahmed; Abdulmaged, Sahar H.; Humadi, Anas A.
- Abstract
The present study conducted in the period December 2020 to January 2021 in the Iraq province of Baghdad on backyard flocks affected by external parasites scaly leg mites (Knemidocoptes mutans) the affected birds treated with the aqueous extracts(100, 75 and 50%) of Nerium oleander, which founded in the gardens and the public parks. And this plant has toxic effects on bacterial and external parasites. The leaves and flowers of the plant extracted in two ways to compare with each other’s and applied on the affected legs of the (37) chickens purchased from local markets for 21 days The lesions score evaluated depends on the cutaneous appearance of the legs of the chickens and examined under a microscope to identify the infestation that resulted in 16 chickens positively infested among 37 tested chickens. Divided into 4 groups treated with 50, 75, 100 % extract concentration and one group as the control without any treatment the 75% showed good results to minimize the coetaneous lesion if compared with others frequently and showed high effects on the Scaly Leg Mites (Knemidocoptes mutans) with reducing the symptoms and Parasiticide activities.
- Subjects
OLEANDER; PLANT extracts; CHICKEN diseases; VETERINARY medicine; MITES
- Publication
Biochemical & Cellular Archives, 2021, Vol 21, p1961
- ISSN
0972-5075
- Publication type
Article