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Hoof Maggots in Livestock


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Innovator / Knowledge Provider Mr. Merajbhai Govindbhai Rabari
City / District Ahmedabad
KVK District Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Anand Agricultural University, Arnej – 382 230. Tel:02714-242028
Address At. Po Sela Sanand Ahmedabad
Languages Spoken Gujarati
Vocation Farmer
State Gujarat
PIN Code 380058

PAS_1 Datura innoxia Mill., Safed Datura (Salonaceae)The whole plant is grinded so as to make paste. It is applied externally to sheep and cowto remove lice for three days. (Diversity of Nutrimental And EthnoveterinaryTherapeutic Potential Plants Of Bahraich (Up) India)
PAS_2 One kg of whole plant of C. reflexa and 1 kgleaves of Datura innoxia are boiled in 1 lt.mustard oil. This oil is massaged toanimal to treat lumbago and rheumatism. (https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/140399/10/l-5%20b.pdf )
Agro Ecological Zone Western plain, kachchh and part of kathiawar peninsula, hot arid eco-region (2.3) ,Coastal Plains and Hills (XIII),Bhal and Coastal area (GJ-8) 14.26% North Gujarat ( GJ-4) 19.87% North west zone (GJ-5) 36.38 North Saurashtra (GJ-6) 29.49
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Disease Description Injuries in the hooves of livestock sometimes become the breeding ground for maggots. The animal limps and suffers severe pain while walking.
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Procedure of Use "All parts of the thornapple (Datura innoxia) shrub that grows up to a height of about 1 metre in all types of wastelands are useful in fighting these maggots. Combined with tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) thornapple makes a deadly vermicide. Rabari lures the hoof maggots out to the surface with jaggery and eliminates them with this deadly combination.Pound the stramonium fruits or leaves or flowers of thornapple and grind into a fine paste. Add a couple of pinches of tobacco snuff. Mix this to a warm solution of water and jaggery to prepare an ointment. Smearing this ointment over the hooves lures the maggots out of the deep crevices. The jaggery attracts them while stramonium and nicotine in the paste destroy them instantly."
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Practice ID DTP0010000000200
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Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/2008
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