A case report of cystic calculi in goat kid

Abstract

A study was carried out to find out the various causes of mortality in kids and to optimize the management strategies to control kid mortality in an organized goat farm with more than 500 breedable Tellicherry does at Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. Detailed necropsy was carried out in all the 52 kids died out of 551 live kids born during the study period of nine months. In which cystic calculi (2.86%) was one of the reason by which kid mortality were occurred. A 45 days old buck had the following clinical signs viz, anorectic, dribbling of urine, oliguria, stranguria, perianal swelling and distended bladder region. Despite of the continuous treatment buck suddenly found dead. Autopsy revealed presence of numerous amorphous calculi on the neck of the bladder and congested kidneys.