Prevention and treatment of diarrhea in lambs

With the development and growth of the sheep industry, the incidence and types of sheep diseases are also on the rise. In many cases, diarrhea is the symptom of colibacillosis, salmonellosis, clostridium dysentery and other diseases. Of course, it is possible that it is caused by other reasons, but in any case, lamb diarrhea has brought great economic losses to farmers. So how do we prevent and cure lamb diarrhoea? Let's follow the editor to learn.

1. The cause of disease

There are four main causes of diarrhoeal disease in lambs, which are imperfect refinement system, insufficient predation of colostrum, poor hygienic environment and excessive stress reaction. To talk about it in detail, it is improper feeding and management, resulting in malnutrition of lambs, resulting in decreased immunity, germs invasion, and finally diarrhea. It also includes feeding deteriorated and moldy feed, feeding time is not fixed, feeding quantity is not fixed, changing materials frequently, drinking water is not clean, etc. Of course, the breeding environment is mainly no bedding, poor thermal insulation, no disinfection, not quiet around or disturbing the lambs. These are the causes of diarrhea in lambs.

2. Symptoms

Lamb diarrhea is mainly divided into three clinical symptoms: mild diarrhea type, enteritis dehydration type and nerve type. The symptoms of these three types of diarrhea are also different, and the severity of diarrhea is also increasing at a time. Mild diarrhea is generally the initial stage of the disease, it is mainly manifested in the discharge of yellow and white dung with sour smell, body temperature, appetite, spirit and so on are normal. Enteritis dehydration type is the aggravation of the disease, when there will be loss of skin elasticity, loss of appetite, physical exhaustion and other symptoms, if there is no timely treatment, there is a good chance of death. The characteristics of neurological disease is more obvious, its incidence rate is very fast, there will not afford to fall to the ground, foaming at the mouth, high fever and other symptoms, the mortality rate is very high.

3. Preventive measures

In order to avoid diarrhea in lambs, we should take preventive measures, which are mainly manifested in feeding and management. First of all, we should reasonably allocate the feed of the lamb to improve the immunity of the lamb. The second is to strengthen the hygiene management in the sheep house, change the bedding material and disinfect it regularly. In addition, a scientific and rational feeding model is also very important. Finally, scientific vaccination should be carried out in accordance with the scientific vaccination process. Generally, as long as these points can be achieved in the process of feeding, then the emergence of diarrhoeal disease can be avoided to a great extent.

4. Treatment methods

There are two treatments for lamb diarrhea: traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is generally the use of pulsatilla, talcum powder, Scutellaria baicalensis, turmeric, Atractylodes, Gardenia, Salvia miltiorrhiza and other medicinal herbs decoction to take, which can play a role in detoxification and anti-diarrhea. Western medicine is generally treated with intramuscular injection of dysentery and dysentery, and then combined with the use of dysentery and other special drugs for lamb diarrhea.

Now sheep disease occurs frequently, in order to avoid causing significant losses, we can only make preparations for prevention in the process of breeding, and refine the work of breeding, so that a lot of problems can be avoided. Secondly, the farm should always prepare some medicinal materials and medicines, so that it can be treated at the first time. That's all the editor wants to share today. I hope I can help you all.