Vol. 12, Special Issue 7 (2023)

The present investigation was carried out from March 2019 to December 2019. During this period, a total number of 630 specimens of lower respiratory tract samples of irrespective of age, sex and breeds were examined. Out of these representative samples 363 lower respiratory tract samples showed gross lesions, which were subjected to histopathological examinations. An overall occurrence of various types pneumonia in goats lower respiratory tract was observed 248 (68.31%) out of 363 samples. Different form of pneumonia was observed as bronchopneumonia 14.32 per cent, interstitial pneumonia 22.86 per cent, fibrinous pneumonia 5.78 per cent, suppurative pneumonia18.18 per cent, haemorrhagic pneumonia 3.03 per cent, parasitic pneumonia 1.65 per cent, aspirated pneumonia 2.47 per cent.