“STUDIES ON FRACTURE REPAIR IN BIRDS DURING KITE FLYING FESTIVAL” BY
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2014
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Anand Agricultural University, Anand
Abstract
Kite flying festival, popularly known as Uttarayan is celebrated on 14th and
15th January by people of Gujarat every year in which electrifying-glass strengthened
threads (Manja) of the Indian fighter kites are matched against each other in the air.
This manja severely wound the birds and this also leads to fracture. The present
clinical study on fracture repair in birds during kite flying festival was undertaken in
25 birds irrespective of species during July-2013 to March-2014. Wing fractures (15,
60 %) were found higher as compared to limb fractures (10, 40 %). In case of wing
fractures, incidence of radius-ulna fracture (8, 53 %) was higher, whereas, in case of
limb fractures, tibiotarsus fractures (5, 50 %) were more.
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Veterinary Surgery, studies