IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EVALUATION AND PHYSICAL REPORT (IJMEPR )

E-ISSN 2579-0498
P-ISSN 2695-2181
VOL. 7 NO. 4 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ijmepr.v7.no4.2023.pg22.31

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Bacteriological Investigation of Soil from Different Poultry Farms in Birnin Kebbi Metropolis

Kashari, O., Abdulkadir, M., Samira, A., Abdulraham, A. U and Abubakar, A

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Abstract

This research work is with a view to investigate soil samples from different poultry (Samjol, Real line farm, Ganus and Rafin Atiku) farms in Birnin Kebbi Metropolis. Serial dilution method was used to determine the viable bacteria plate count and biochemical test was used to identify the colonies that developed on the culture medium. The vaiable bacteria plate count indicates that sample (1) from Samjol farm has the highest bacteria load of 1.20x10-3 cfu while sample(3) from real line poultry farm has the lowest bacteria load of 2.0x10-3. Ten (10) different kinds of bacteria (Staphylococcus, Escherichia Coli, Klebsiella, Pseudononas, Shigella, Enterobacter, Salmonella, Proteus, Bacillus and Clostridium species) were isolated. The presence of these bacteria in the soil samples from poultry source could pose a potential health risk to the poultry workers, poultry birds sellers and eventually to the public and their presence on the soil could also cause competition with soil microflora resulting in deflection of soil nutrients. Personal hygiene practice of poultry works and birds sellers should be stickly observe to avoid disease outbreak.

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