author(s)
TA Vijayalingam, NV Rajesh, A Latchumikanthan and P Ramesh Kumar

abstract
A Non-Descript (ND) Goat unit at Mothivalasai village of Ramanathapuram district, with the total strength of 30 animals maintained under semi-intensive system was reported to have sporadic mortality in the grown up animals during the month of June 2020. The affected stock showed inanition, debilitation, disinclination to move, lateral recumbency, diarrhoea and death. The animals were maintained on grazing and feeding of pulverised millets mixed with sesame oilcake. During a period of 1 month 3 Goats succumbed to death. Post-mortem examination was conducted in an excavated carcass. The carcass was a pregnant animal with poor bodily condition and showed anaemic changes, debilitation, toxic hepatitis, nephritis, enteritis, haemorrhagic and ulcerative typhilitis with helminthic parasites in the lumen. Microscopic examination of caecal content revealed the presence of Trichuris ovis eggs. The parasites recovered from the lumen of the caecum were confirmed microscopically as T.ovis. Toxicological analysis of the pulverised millets mixed with sesame oil cake revealed the presence of Aflatoxin B1 (150 ppm). Withholding of ground millet with sesame oilcake, single oral dose of 2.5% suspension of Panacur® (Fenbendazole 25 mg) at 5 mg/ kg body weight and supplementation of liver extract (LIV52®) and multivitamin for about 10 days stopped the mortality and the animals in the unit recovered completely.