How to prevent and treat soft Nephropathy in early Summer Sheep

Sheep enterotoxemia, also known as sheep soft nephropathy, has the characteristics of acute and high mortality, which is named because the kidney of sick sheep is as soft as mud after death. The pathogen of soft nephropathy is Clostridium perfringens type D, which is widely distributed. The pathogen is also found in the intestines of healthy sheep. When the feed suddenly changes, especially after the sheep eat a large amount of green, succulent or protein-rich feed, the gastrointestinal function weakens, the bacteria multiply in large quantities, produce toxins, and the body absorbs the disease, so it is called "enterotoxemia".

Sheep

Late spring and early summer is the high incidence season of soft kidney disease in sheep, mostly in young sheep who eat a lot of young green succulent feed such as green grass or green vegetables, and when fattening sheep and dairy sheep eat too much concentrate and lack of exercise, it is also easy to induce the disease.

Morbid symptoms

Most of them were acute and died suddenly. Sheep with slow development of the disease often show neurological symptoms, such as tilting their heads back, turning in circles, walking blindly, and then fall to the ground and die in a coma. Some show depression, drooling or diarrhea. Generally, the body temperature is not high, but the sugar content in sheep's urine increases by 2% to 6%.

Pathological changes

The kidneys soften like mud and fester with a little touch. The liver is enlarged, brittle and soft, with gas under the capsule. The gastrointestinal tract, especially the true stomach and small intestine, showed bloody inflammation. There is fluid in the body cavity, especially in the pericardium. The lymph nodes of the whole body were enlarged and the section was dark brown.

Prevention and cure method

In late spring and early summer, sheep should avoid eating a lot of green grass at one time.

Prophylactic injections. Sheep can be vaccinated with triple vaccine of rapid epidemic, sudden gangrene and enterotoxemia. Sheep under half a year old are given a subcutaneous injection of 5ml at a time and a subcutaneous injection of 8ml at a time over half a year old.

Treatment. The onset of soft nephropathy in sheep is urgent and often ineffective in treatment. If the course of the disease is slow, the sheep can be treated with xanthamine and antibiotics, and the effect is obvious.