Abstract:
This research aims to know the endoparasites and its prevalence in chicken (Gallus domesticus) intestines from tradisional market in Pekanbaru. This research hadbeen carried out from October 2012 to March 2013. The chicken intestines were collected from seven traditional markets in Pekanbaru (Sail, Lima Puluh, Kodim, Palapa, Cik Puan, Arengka and Panam). Six samples of chicken intestine were examined from each market which the total number of samples were 42 altogether. Two methods were used in this study, direct and concentration method. The results showed that 26 out of 42 samples were infected by endoparasitic species belong to 18 genus i.e. Echinostoma, Raillietina, Schistosoma, Echinococcus, Diphylidium, Hymenolepis, Choanotaenia, Amoebotaenia, Anoplacephala, Ascaris, Toxocara,Oxyuris, Trichuris, Strongyloides, Ancylostoma, Capilaria, Ciliata dan Eimeria. The abundance of endoparasites from seven traditional markets in Pekanbaru ranged from 0 to 18 which the average of endoparasitic abundance was 7. The highest prevalence of
endoparasitic species from mature individual and egg was found in Rallietina (26%)
and Hymenolepis (29%) respectively.
