Prevalence of Endoparasites and Ectoparasites of Captive Peafowl Farm

Ectoparasite and endoparasites in captive peacock are widely distributed in the world. As there appeared to be fewer data available published in scientific journals on parasitic infection of a captive peacock in Bangladesh and considering the potential threat of captive peafowl for animal and public health, the present study was carried out by using fecal samples collected from peafowl farm of Banskhali in Chittagong city of Bangladesh. A total of 50 captive peafowls out of 50 peafowls, 10 (41.67%) were infected with both coccidiosis and ascariasis. Only Coccidia out of 50, 30 (60%) was infected and only Ascariasis out of 50, 24(48%) were infected. Ectoparasites (Amyrsidea minutes) out of 50, 50 (100%) were infected. The female was more likely infected compared to the male but was statistically insignificant (p>0.05). Floatation method has significantly higher accuracy to diagnose coccidiosis in peafowl than the sedimentation method, whereas sedimentation method has 100% accuracy to detect ascariasis in positive samples of 50.