What about the rumen accumulated food of sheep?

Rumen accumulated food is a common disease in sheep. Unlike anthrax in sheep, anthrax can be transmitted to other sheep. It mainly affects the growth of sick sheep. And sheep rumen accumulated food is also many let you call forestomach accumulated food or rumen obstruction, in fact, popularly speaking is a serious problem of indigestion. So how to treat the rumen accumulated food of sheep? What is the cause of it? Are there any signs before the attack? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

Cause of disease

The cause of rumen accumulation of sheep is mainly caused by improper feeding management, which is mainly manifested as excessive feeding times, large amount of feeding, excessive amount of concentrate, less water, less forage feeding, less exercise and so on. Because the sheep is actually quite silly, it will eat as much as you feed, and then its stomach will continue to expand, resulting in accumulated food in the stomach, unable to digest, and secondly, some food is more difficult for sheep to absorb and digest, so it will also cause rumen accumulation symptoms.

Symptoms of onset

The onset of rumen food disease in sheep is relatively fast. At the beginning of the disease, you will find that its breathing is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and then it paces or keeps standing and lying down in the sheep barn, and often kicks its own abdomen. If there is no treatment, the abdomen will slowly grow up, and secretions will overflow from the nose or mouth of the sheep, and the stool will be unusually smelly. The last serious time is dehydration and no longer urination, defecation and drowsiness, and eventually death.

Treatment method

The method of treatment can be treated according to the specific condition, and hunger can be used to treat the rumen if the accumulated food is not particularly serious, that is to say, there is no feeding during this period of time. The right amount of water can also be fed with a little digestible vegetable leaves, and it is not necessary to massage its abdomen and let it do proper exercise, so it will be fine in a few days. The second is that when the condition is slightly serious, we can use medication and gastric lavage for treatment. If there is no effect after gastric lavage and drug treatment, we can only carry out surgery and take out the food inside. These are more professional things. For details, you can follow us or consult relevant experts.

Matters needing attention

In view of the problem of accumulated food in the rumen of sheep, in fact, the most important thing to pay attention to is to increase the intensity of feeding and management. at ordinary times, do not feed food that is too dry, too hard and not easy to digest, and pay attention to the reasonable collocation of nutrition. the amount of feed and more water and other problems, finally, it is usually necessary to ensure that sheep have at least an hour of exercise every day, because exercise can promote digestion.