TRAUMATIC AND NON-TREUMATIC INDIGESTION IN SMALL RUMINANTS

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The present study aimed to determine the varieties of objects causing traumatic and non-traumatic indigestion among sheep and goats. Traum tic indigestion was caused mainly by nails, staplers and pieces of wires while non traumatic indigestion was caused mainly by plastic bags, rags, ropes, palm date pits, plant fibres, hair balls and sand. There was observed marked leucocytosis, slight neutrophilia with marked eosinophilia. Blood serum behaved hypoproteinaemia and high blood urea level.