Common parasite symptoms and control methods in beef cattle breeding

Parasitic diseases are very common in the process of beef cattle breeding. according to its parasitic location, parasitic diseases can be divided into in vivo and in vitro parasitic diseases. It has many types, wide distribution and many ways of transmission. If it is not treated in time after infection, it does great harm to beef cattle. The following pro-agricultural network brings an introduction to several common parasites, including their symptoms and prevention methods. Let's learn about them.

1. Babesiosis

Symptoms: there is an incubation period of about a week after parasitism, and the body temperature of beef cattle increases obviously at the initial stage of the disease, which can be as high as 12 degrees. Beef cattle turn into mental depression, loss of appetite, slow rumination and constipation. With the development of the disease, it is characterized by shortness of breath and difficulty after two or three days, rapid heartbeat, gradual weight loss, and accompanied by jaundice. In the later stage of the disease, the sick cow was weak and could not stand upright normally, stopped eating, some had diarrhea, and the feces were brown and smelly.

Prevention and treatment: babesiosis can be treated with 7-10mg/kg triazamidine and 7% solution for intramuscular injection, once a day for two or three consecutive days, or intravenous yellow pigment solution, or traditional Chinese medicine therapy. Young Artemisia annua branches and leaves can be mashed and soaked for half an hour and then poured with dregs, 3-5kg each time, twice a day.

2. Coccidiosis

Symptoms: coccidiosis is a common parasitic disease in beef cattle. At the initial stage of the disease, the diseased cattle begin to have mild diarrhea, and sometimes the feces are mixed with blood filaments or fibrous mucosa, while the more serious cases can discharge blood clots and give off stench. Lead to bloody stool attached to the tail, poor appetite, mental malaise, gradual weight loss, anemia and other symptoms, if the disease is serious, it can die in a week or so.

Control method: the control method of coccidiosis is relatively simple. Can be treated and treated directly through drugs, generally using Dianjing feeding, the specific dosage should be determined according to the condition and age of beef cattle, once a day for 2-3 consecutive days.

3. Fasciola hepatica

Symptoms: fascioliasis can be divided into acute and chronic, it is mainly parasitic on the liver of beef cattle, acute fever occurs at the onset of the disease, and pressing the liver of beef cattle, beef cattle will have obvious pain. During auscultation, it will be found that the area of voiced sound area increases, in addition, beef cattle must also show symptoms of slow response, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Chronic in the onset of the disease, loss of appetite, anemia, gradual weight loss of the body, pale mouth, abdominal edema, and so on, and if pregnant cows infected with this disease, will lead to reduced milk production, but also the phenomenon of abortion, stillbirth.

Prevention and treatment: fascioliasis can be treated with 40-50 mg/kg dichlorophenol orally, or nitrochlorophenol can be added to the feed, or low concentration nitrochlorophenol can be injected intramuscularly.

4. Bovine acariasis

Symptoms: bovine acariasis, also known as scabies, is a common extracorporeal parasitic disease in beef cattle, with a high degree of infection. it causes skin inflammation, hair loss, and often mixed infection with scabies mites and itch mites. Beef cattle show obvious itching after infection, will continue to friction, will eventually lead to hair loss at the lesion, serious spread to the whole body, but also friction and trauma, vulnerable to other bacteria infection.

Prevention and treatment methods: after the disease, the diseased cattle should be isolated in time, and deworming should be carried out in time. Low concentration chlordimeform aqueous solution and phoxim can be used to treat them. After smearing, they should be raised separately so as not to lick each other and prevent poisoning.

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