What are the most common diseases in sheep?

1. Anthracnose of sheep. Sheep anthracnose is an acute zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus anthracis. The sick sheep showed running and jumping for a short period of time, shaking and falling to the ground, leaning their head back, swimming their limbs at will, and died after a few minutes. The incidence of the disease is the highest from May to September. Can be carried out in spring and autumn anthrax prevention injection, anthrax occurred in the area, once a year vaccination, each sheep neck subcutaneous injection of anthrax spore vaccine 0.5 ml, can be immunized for one year.

2. Enterotoxemia of sheep. There was a sudden attack of enterotoxemia in sheep, with strong scratching of limbs, muscle trembling, eye movement, molars and excessive saliva before death, followed by a significant contraction of the head and neck and often died within 4 hours. Treatment: (1) take sulfa guanidine 18ml 20g, once on the first day, twice on the second day, until cured. (2) it can be filled with 10% lime water, 200 ml for each big sheep and 50 ml for each lamb.

3. Lamb dysentery. The disease of lamb dysentery is characterized by diarrhea in lambs. Faeces stink, some are as thick as batter, some are as thin as water, and later contain blood, often dying for 2 days. Treatment: (1) 0.2 ml of oxytetracycline, 0.3 g of pepsin, 0.2 ml of pepsin, twice a day; (2) hyperimmune serum of anti-lamb dysentery, intramuscular injection of 0.5-l.0 ml.

4. Fascioliasis of sheep liver. The acute symptoms of diseased sheep are mental depression, elevated body temperature, loss of appetite and occasional diarrhea. Severe anemia, enlarged abdominal circumference, full of ascites, often died within 5 days. The chronic manifestation of the diseased sheep was that the course of disease was long, anemia, weight loss, constipation and dysentery occurred alternately, and the coat was rough and shiny and died. Treatment: (1) dichlorophenol sulfate, 0.1g per kilogram of body weight, into a suspension, and (2) nitrochlorophenol, 5ml per kilogram of body weight, once. Prevention: deworming regularly, once in spring and autumn.

5. Sheep acariasis. There are two kinds of scabies mites and itch mites parasitic on the body surface of sheep. Scabies mites are mostly parasitic in sheep's mouth skin, nose, around the eyes, ears, head, medial leg and tail root and so on. Itch mites often occur in the hairy arms and back, and then spread to the whole body. This is a common disease of sheep, and it does great harm to sheep production. Treatment and prevention: 0.25% solution of mijing can be used for medicine bath, once a year in spring and autumn.