Abstract

J. K. Chaudhary, B. Singh, Dinesh Kumar and Amod Kumar

The present study was carried out to find out the morbidity and mortality rates of specific diseases in bovine under the village condition in Himachal Pradesh state. A total of 540 livestock owners constitute the ultimate sample from twelve veterinary hospitals and thirty six villages for the study. The sampling scheme followed in the present study was Stratified three-stage random sampling. The result showed that mastitis has highest morbidity rate 4.18% followed by EBH 0.68%, FMD 0.63%, and warts 0.57% and Actinomycosis 0.26%. The mortality rate was maximum for HS and rabies each 0.104% followed by EBH 0.05%. Mastitis has highest number of cases in zone (I) and zone (II) (each 1.18%) and EBH (0.68%) were only recorded in zone IV. Warts cases (0.36%) were maximum in zone (III) and Actinomycosis (0.21%) were maximum in zone (I) HS and Rabies (each 0.1%) were only found in zone.