Prevention and treatment of fattening lamb disease in farmed mutton sheep

Lamb fatness, also known as lamb obesity, is a widespread metabolic disease of lambs. This disease occurs mostly in fat lambs of one and a half months to two months of age with strong feed intake.

etiology

Because the lambs that can eat at the beginning are fed with a large amount of corn containing carbohydrates, the feed is single, which affects the normal metabolism of lambs, and the lambs do not get sufficient exercise for a long time. causing excessive obesity in lambs. Special house feeding lambs, or from grazing to house feeding, destroyed the metabolic process of lambs, when collecting a large amount of carbohydrate feed, rapidly decomposed into organic acids and carbon dioxide, resulting in increased acid concentration in the blood acting on the central nervous system, causing serious dysfunction of the central nervous system, suffering lambs appear excitement, inhibition and a series of toxic symptoms, eventually due to hypoxia and lead to respiratory and heartbeat movement central paralysis and death.

main symptoms

Sudden onset, frothy saliva flowing out of the mouth of the sick lamb, shortness of breath, conjunctival cyanosis, rapid heartbeat, slightly high body temperature, nervous symptoms in the later stage, restlessness, sometimes chirping, jumping forward, sometimes abdominal pain symptoms. The disease course is sharp, the most acute onset of death about 10~20 minutes, slower death in an hour.

treatment

The disease is acute, death fast, need timely treatment. Treatment:

1. Subcutaneous or intramuscular injection of 0.1% cardiotonic sodium plus injection, 2~3 ml subcutaneous injection according to lamb weight.

2 5% glucose saline or 0.9% saline intravenous injection 300~500 ml.

3.5% sodium bicarbonate 20 to 30 ml IV.

4. Subcutaneous multi-point injection of 0.9% normal saline or sugar saline 200~300 ml.

preventive measures

1. The concentrate fed to lambs should be diversified and the feed variety should be strictly prevented from being single. Especially rich in carbohydrate feed such as corn, etc., to strictly control the feeding amount, lambs with diet to time, quantitative, sub-feeding, and to feed hay and juicy drinks. Free salt collection, supplementary feeding of trace elements and vitamins, ensure adequate drinking water lambs, strengthen exercise, increase sunshine hours.

2. Strengthen the movement of suckling lambs. For lambs more than half a month old, they should exercise outside in sunny and windless weather. Exercise time is best at noon, exercise time gradually extended. Through exercise, can promote digestion and metabolism, enhance lamb physique, prevent the occurrence of this disease.