Common Diseases and Prevention of raising Sheep in Summer

Summer is coming, and it is also the best season for sheep to gain fat. Many farmers and friends will choose to take sheep out to graze in summer and let sheep feed themselves. Although the outside fodder is the most nutritious time, but if not careful, it will lead to sheep disease, extremely troublesome. What are the common diseases of sheep in summer? What is the cause of the disease? How can we prevent it? Let's take a look.

1. Foot rot

Causes: Summer is the season of high temperature and rainy, and the weather is changeable, resulting in humidity in the sheep house, making sheep vulnerable to this disease. The main reason is that due to the imbalance of calcium and phosphorus in the feed, the cutin of the feet is loose, softened after soaking in rain, and the feet are punctured by stone glass and other substances during grazing. All of these causes can lead to foot rot.

Symptoms: sick sheep walk unstable, limp, poor appetite, most of the time lying on the ground unwilling to walk. After separating the diseased hooves with a knife, holes will be found and black foul liquid will flow out of the holes, which will lead to systemic septicemia in severe cases.

Prevention and control methods: add some minerals in the feed, remove the feces and urine in the house in time, and keep it clean and hygienic. For sick sheep, the diseased hoof should be trimmed in time. If it has rotted, the medicinal potassium permanganate can be easily smeared and cleaned. If it is soft tissue decay, the diseased hoof should be cleaned and then filled with salicylic acid powder for bandaging.

2. Heat stroke

Causes: Heat stroke is mainly due to prolonged grazing in the sun when the intensity is extremely high and the permeability of the sheep house is extremely poor, unable to ventilate in time, and the house is stuffy. These conditions are most likely to cause heatstroke in sheep.

Symptoms: heatstroke early sheep spirit is not good, listlessness, low head circle, walk unstable, limbs trembling. The color of the eyes will gradually turn blue-purple, the body temperature will rise to more than 40 degrees, shortness of breath, severe will faint directly, not timely treatment will soon die.

Prevention and control methods: immediately transfer the sick sheep to a cool place to cool down, pour cold water along the head or pour cold water into the intestine of the sheep, inject Anaka sheep, and drink salt water to supplement moisture and salt. Bleed 90 ml or so in the vein of the stem, and rehydration immediately after bleeding. Be careful not to graze in the hot sun. Before ten o'clock in the morning and after five o'clock in the evening are the best times. Keep the ventilation in the sheep house, let the sheep drink more water, and put more cool feed.

3. Blue tongue disease

Pathogenesis: Bluetongue disease is a common disease of all ruminants. It is a highly infectious disease, mainly due to the invasion of the dermal layer of sheep's hooves. The source is sick animals, the virus will be transmitted through mosquitoes, mostly in summer and autumn.

Symptoms: The disease has an incubation period of about a week. In the early stage, like heatstroke, the temperature will rise to more than 40 degrees, the spirit is not good, the depression, the shortness of breath, and the heartbeat is accelerated. Late dyspnea, hoof pain lying on the ground, pneumonia, gastroenteritis leading to death

Prevention and treatment methods: there is no specific treatment for bluetongue disease, to strengthen the nutrition of sheep, management, the right medicine. The main or prevention-based, regular annual vaccination, protection of sheep hooves, lameness found in sheep should be treated immediately sheep hooves. If there are sick sheep, kill them immediately and eliminate the source of disease.

Summer sheep most likely to occur is the above three diseases, many friends do not know about bluetongue disease do not know, see symptoms think it is heatstroke. It leads to the final large-scale infection, which seriously affects its own economic interests, so it is necessary to check the symptoms of sick sheep clearly, so as to prescribe the right medicine. In fact, there are more than three kinds, such as eye disease and so on. All the causes of disease are caused by daily environment such as temperature sanitation, so we must ensure a suitable living environment for sheep.