ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO SLAUGHTERING OF PREGNANT BUFFALOES AT PESHAWAR ABATTOIR

Abstract

This study was aimed to know the economic losses due to pregnant buffaloes slaughtered at Peshawar abattoir_ A total of 250 buffalo reproductive tracts were collected from slaughter house throughout the week and studied at V.R.1. Peshawar. The frequency of pregnancies among slaughtered buffaloes were 2440 percent of which 47.54 percent were left sided, 44.26 percent right sided and 8.20 percent unidentified. Annually. 3172 pregnant buffaloes would be expected slaughtered. Considering the minimum milk yield per buffalo per lactation to be 1742 litre. The annual milk loss due of 3172 pregnant buffaloes being slaughtered, would be 5.54 million litres in addition of milk loss and a crop of more than 3004 replacements is lost every year. The slaughtering of pregnant buffaloes leading to huge economic losses could be avoided by enforcing the rules and regularly conducting antimortem examination before slaughtering.