Naslov
Poultry red mite in Croatia – preliminary results from the WG1 questionnaire

Autori
Horvatek Tomić, Danijela ; Gottstein, Željko ; Ervaćinović, Željka ; Lukač, Maja ; Prukner-Radovčić, Estella

Izvornik
Scientia parasitologica (1582-1366) 19 (2018), S.I.; 47-48

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
poultry red mite, Croatia, laying hens

Sažetak
The Republic of Croatia joined the European Union on July 1, 2013, what also led to the alignment of its legislation with the legal system of the EU. The Commission Directive 2002/4/EC on the registration of establishments keeping laying hens covered by Council Directive 1999/74/E was implemented in the Croatian laws since 2013. Due to that directive, the Ministry of Agriculture held an official list of establishments that are keeping the laying hens and selling their eggs on the market (currently available list from September 3rd, 2018, contains 184 establishments). The Working Group (WG) 1 of the COST Action FA 1404 COREMI produced a questionnaire that was translated to the Croatian language. The establishments mentioned on the official list of the Ministry of Agriculture were used as a base for the investigation of the current PRM situation in Croatia, based on the WG1 questionnaire. In 2016, the list contained 145 establishments, which kept from 30 to 259200 laying hens. The questionnaire was sent to the establishments that kept more than 3000 laying hens via email, to altogether 56 of them. Out of them, 40 kept their laying hens in the cages, 15 in the barns and one as a free-range flock. The questionnaire had 5 groups of questions, as follows: System background, Poultry Red Mite indicators, Hygiene and red mite treatments, Implementation of red mite control and Costs of red mite control, as well as extra remark and personal details field (to be filled optionally). Out of 56 sent emails, the filled questionnaire was received from 5 of them (8.93%). The obtained findings are shown in Table 1. Although only less than 10% of the establishments send the filled questionnaire, there are still some conclusions that can be taken from it: the majority of the establishments used legal insecticide for the treatment of the full houses, as well as some monitoring method to indicate the presence of PRM. On the other hand, the majority of them start with the treatment when the mites are clearly visible, or have an impact on production or caretakers start to complain. Due to the significance that PRM has to the layer industry, there is a clear need to approach the farmers or establishments more personally, to be able to obtain more significant national data, comparable to other EU countries.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Veterinarska medicina

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