Abstract:
A total of 82 cervical swabs were collected from 10
post-parturient Nubian goats including: 38 cervical swabs from five
Nubian goats which were kidded normally (control group) and 44
cervical swabs from post-parturient Caesarean sectioned Nubian
goats (C.S group). The specimens were collected, starting from the
second day after kidding till the goat came into the first observed
heat. These swabs were collected from Nubian goats kept at the
Sudan University Farm at Hilat Kuku.
The isolates that were recovered from these two groups
were 104 constituting 10 different genera. They included Bacillus
spp, Bordetella spp, Corynebacterium spp, Escherichia spp, Gemella
spp, Klebsiella spp, Microccocus spp, Proteus spp, Staphylococcus spp
and Streptococcus spp. The organisms isolated from C.S group
constituted 59.62 % and 40.38 % were from the control group.
It was noticed that four goats in the control group were free
from the organisms as early as day 13, 21 and day 26 and only one
goat continued to show organisms till the signs of oestrus were
observed, while in the C.S group four goats continued to host
organisms till the signs of oestrus were observed and only one goat
was free from organisms at day 21. Depending on these observations,
the post-partum period in the normally kidded Nubian goats ranged
between 13-36 days (23.4 ± 8.46) and between 21-41 days (35 ± 8.22)
in the C.sectioned Nubian goats and the difference between the
two groups was significant (P < 0.05).
The organisms common between the two groups included:
Bacillus cereus, E.coli, Escherichia fergusonii, Staphylococcus
chromogens and Streptococcus faecalis.The genera isolated only from
the control group included: Gemella spp and Klebsiella spp, and
those isolated specifically from the C.S group included: Bordetella spp,
Corynebacterium spp and Proteus spp, and most of Staphylococcus
chromogens isolations were recovered from the C.S group (25.8%
from C.S while 7.14% were isolated from the control group).
It could be concluded from this study that the C.S leads to
significant prolongation of the post-partum period in the Nubian goats,
thus it could increase the kidding interval, .The pathogenic organisms
isolated during the post-partal period in operated goats were more
than those in normally kidded Nubian goats.
