What should be done about fat lamb disease of mutton sheep?

Sheep farming is now one of the major breeding industries in China, and sheep farming can be divided into several aspects, such as milk sheep, wool sheep, breeder sheep and mutton sheep. The market price of sheep is also rising gradually, but when raising mutton sheep, farmers will find that many young sheep with strong feeding ability for one to two months often have a lot of abnormal phenomena. In fact, this is the fat lamb disease of mutton sheep, so what causes the fat lamb disease? How to prevent and cure it? Let's take a look at it.

1. Symptoms

Fat lamb disease mainly occurs in lambs aged from one and a half months to two months, especially fat lambs with strong food intake and more food intake. Sick sheep will have a sudden onset, mouth quarrels begin to flow foam-like saliva, shortness of breath, accompanied by loud breathing sound, conjunctiva will also begin cyanosis, with hands close to the heart will feel the heartbeat faster, body temperature will gradually rise. In the later stage of the disease, there will be neurological symptoms, restlessness, howling, restlessness, and abdominal pain. When you have an acute attack, you will die within 20 minutes at the earliest and within 1 hour at the slowest.

2. The cause of disease

Most people feed the lamb with a single corn containing a lot of carbohydrates, which seriously affects the normal metabolism of the lamb, and the lamb does not exercise for a long time, resulting in the obesity of the lamb. In particular, many farmers will raise the lambs separately, house feeding will destroy the physical function of the lambs, and then eat a lot of carbohydrates, carbohydrates in the sheep are quickly decomposed into organic acids and carbon dioxide, resulting in a rapid increase in acid concentration in the blood, causing central nervous system disorder, lambs with excitement and other symptoms of poisoning, and finally unable to breathe asphyxiation because of hypoxia.

3. Prevention and control methods

The incidence of fat lamb disease is extremely fast, and the course of the disease is very short. If there is no timely treatment, it will die within an hour. When a sick sheep is found, the sick sheep will be transferred immediately. Then specifically check whether it is fat lamb disease, if it is not fat lamb disease, should immediately check for other diseases, and then symptomatic treatment. After the diagnosis of fat lamb disease, the hypodermic or chicken can be injected with cardiotonic sodium injection, depending on the body weight of the lamb, or glucose saline, sodium bicarbonate or normal saline can be used.

four. How to prevent

When feeding lambs, the feed should be diversified as much as possible, and it is not suitable to feed a certain kind of feed, especially the carbohydrate-rich feed mentioned earlier. It is necessary to control the amount of feeding of the lamb, cooperate with the regular feeding of the diet, feed a small amount frequently, feed more hay and drinks, and allow it to pick salt freely to supplement the trace elements and vitamins in the sheep. Ensure that the lamb has enough water to drink, strengthen the exercise of the lamb, and enhance the light intensity and time. Through exercise, it can effectively promote the metabolism of sheep, enhance their physique and reduce the incidence of fat lamb disease.

The above is a simple explanation about the fat lamb disease, which is a fatal disease to the lambs and has an extremely adverse impact on the economic interests of farmers. In the process of breeding, we must pay attention to reasonable feed feeding, ensure the diversification of feed, make the lamb grow evenly, enhance its physique, and speed up the metabolism of the sheep. This article is for reference only. I hope it will be helpful to you.