Remedial Strategies Against an Emerging Threat of Ticks in Goats: A Review |Biomedgrid

Current study was conducted in order to explore the prevalence of ticks infestation as well as different curative strategies against tick infestation in goats. In this regards a detailed review was carried and the obtained results were found much interesting and useful. It was noticed that the prevalence of tick infestation in goats is 70% compared other diseases. Female goats suffers more (82.84%) compared to males (56.25%). All the tick-infested goats show the clinical signs of weakness, anaemia, and anorexia, hair loss and skin damage. It was further reported various application are used for controlling this emerging threat in goat, however, the efficacy rate of Trichlorfon remains significantly higher (78.4 to 85.6%) compared to other applications. Further, the Cypermethrin was reported as second most effective (68 to 81.6%) effective application after Trichlorfon. In conclusion, Trichlorfon has been proved most effective drug against the tick infestation in goats compared to all other application. It may safely be used against emerging threat of ticks.