Prevention and treatment of rapid epidemic in sheep

Sheep fast epidemic is two acute infectious diseases caused by Clostridium putrefaciens through digestive tract, which mainly occurs in sheep. Clostridium spores are often distributed in low-lying grasslands, cultivated land and swamps in the form of spores. Sheep eat contaminated feed and drinking water, spores enter the digestive tract of sheep, most of them do not get sick. In the sudden change of climate, continuous rain, autumn and winter cold season, cause sheep cold or the decline of disease resistance, Clostridium putrefaciens multiply in large numbers, produce exotoxin and cause disease and death.

Features

The onset is sudden, there are no symptoms in grazing or death in the morning. The acute sick sheep showed willingness to walk, dyskinesia, enlarged abdominal circumference, abdominal pain, diarrhea, molars, convulsions, and finally weakness, coma, mouth flow with blood foam. Most of them died in a few minutes to hours, and the course of the disease was extremely short.

Prevention and cure

1. Use sheep triple vaccine for prophylactic injections. The wet seedlings are spring and autumn twice a year and the seedlings are once a year.

two。 It is better for sheep to be fed in houses to prevent accidental feeding and drinking water contaminated by bacteria during grazing.

3. Pay attention to the warmth and ventilation in the house, feed replacement should be completed gradually, do not change suddenly.

4. Treatment: 80-1.6 million units of penicillin can be injected intramuscularly, the first dose is doubled, 3 times a day, for 3-4 days. Or take sulfonamidine 0 internally. 2g / kg body weight, halved the next day for 3-4 days.

The rapid epidemic of sheep is mainly based on prevention.