INFECTION OF LIVESTOCK ANIMALS WITH PARASITES IN THE CONDITIONS OF PEASANT FARMING IN THE MOSCOW REGION

The socio-economic role in the development of peasant farming in the current conditions of import substitution will certainly increase, especially in filling local and regional markets with agricultural products. The limiting factor of farms of any form of ownership are parasitic diseases. Studies on the infection of livestock animals were carried out at a peasant farm enterprise of the Dmitrov City District of the Moscow Region. Feces were taken individually from each animal: cattle (70 lactating cows, and 32 young bulls on fattening), goats (15 milk goats, and 12 baby goats kept together), 10 Vietnamese pot–bellied pigs, 2 horses and ponies. Based on the conducted studies, it was found that the cattle, namely the lactating cows and bulls on fattening were infected by pathogens of gastrointestinal strongylatosis by 14.3 and 50%, and the milk and young goats, by 100%, which indicates a high infection rate of these pathogens in ruminants. Also, the nematode Strongyloides papillosus (IP=80%) and protozoa from the genus Eimeria (IP=53%) were identified in the mature goats. In the Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, horses and ponies, the most common helminth infections were identified, namely: Oesophagostomum (IP=50%) and Ascaris suum (IP=80%) and pathogens from the Strongylata suborder, respectively.