Different parts of the study area were
surveyed and a number of gastrointestinal tracts of
different slaughtered ruminants were collected from
different slaughter houses. The various organs were
separated from each other, placed individually in
shallow plastic jars containing normal saline
(0.85%) and were examined for helminth parasites
followed by standard methods of Boomker et al.
(1989). The digestive tract was divided into rumen
and reticulum, omasum and abomasa, small and
large intestines. The rumen and reticulum were
opened and their contents carefully removed.
Visible parasites were collected in plastic jar
containing normal saline. The abomasa, the small