Turkeys Helminthiasis and Their Seasonal Dynamics

Abstract

Evolving to reach the invasive stage of helminth eggs, being found themselves in the environment, the availability of suitable temperature and humidity is very important. On the basis of scatological studies and autopsies, along with the infection of turkeys with helminths Ascaridia dissimilis, Heterakis gallinarum and Raillietina tetragona, as well as a higher intensity of invasions in the summer seasons, were found in birds kept in the foothill areas of the region. So, on the basis of the parasitological studies, carried out the extensiveness of large roundworms (ascarids) in turkeys was determined in the following specimens of helminths 19.2%, intensity (II) 3–21, heterakis EI 26.6%, II 4–23, raillietina EI 22.4%, II 3–12.