Characteristics and Diagnosis of Donkey Disease

Characteristics of donkey disease

Donkeys and horses belong to different animals. Therefore, the biological characteristics and physiological structure of donkeys are basically similar to those of horses. However, there are great differences between them, so there are also differences in the performance of the disease.

Donkeys suffer from diseases similar to horses in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, infectious diseases and parasitic diseases, such as gastric dilatation, constipation, colic, adenosis and so on. Due to the biological characteristics of donkeys, donkeys are different from horses in disease resistance, clinical manifestations and drug response, so donkey disease has some unique characteristics in etiology, condition, pathological changes and symptoms. For example, the clinical manifestation of colic is very obvious in horses, especially in light horses, while donkeys tend to show mild or even no external symptoms. Donkey is sensitive to gangrene, easy to cause sepsis or sepsis after infection, and has a strong resistance to infectious anemia.

Under the same circumstances, donkeys do not suffer from solar radiation disease and heat radiation disease, while horses do not. Of course, donkeys also have some specific diseases that are unique and easy to suffer from, such as mildew corn poisoning, prepartum anorexia and so on. Therefore, attention must be paid to the diagnosis and treatment of donkey disease. We should not rigidly copy the treatment experience of the horse, but should be treated according to the characteristics of the donkey.

Distinguish between healthy donkey and abnormal donkey

No matter at ordinary times or in grazing, a healthy donkey always has two ears erect, moves freely, has a high head and neck, and is in high spirits. Male donkeys, in particular, stare with their heads held high, whine, jump and try to approach when they meet or find their own kind in the distance. When a healthy donkey eats grass, it chews forcefully and makes a sound. If someone walks by the edge of the trough, he will whine endlessly. The healthy donkey has a fresh mouth and mild nose and ears. The dung ball has moderate hardness, moist and bright appearance, straw yellow when fresh, and brown for a long time. Sometimes spurting the wing of the nose, that is, snoring. As the saying goes, "if the donkey snores and the cow foams, there are not many minor ailments."

Abnormal donkeys have a strong tolerance to general diseases, even if they are sick, they can eat some grass and drink some water. If you do not pay attention to observation, when they do not eat or drink, when the diet is wasted, the disease will be more serious. To judge whether the donkey is normal or not, we can also observe and compare the mental state of eating grass and drinking water and the temperature change of nose and ear. Donkey head drooping ears, low spirits, nose and ear cold or overheating, although eat some grass, but do not drink water, indicating that the donkey has fallen ill and should be treated in time.

The amount of drinking water is of great significance to judge whether the donkey is sick or not. If the donkey eats less grass and drinks a lot of water, it can be known that the donkey is not sick; if the intake of grass is not reduced, and drinking water is reduced or not for several days in a row, the donkey can predict that the donkey is going to get sick. If the dung ball is dry and hard, touch a small amount of mucus and drink less water, gastroenteritis may occur after a few days. There is a foreign habit in feeding, sometimes gnawing on wooden stakes or grooves, not drinking much water, the spirit is not reduced, acute gastritis may occur.

Although the donkey does not eat all night, he leaves the trough and stands, but as long as his nose and ears are mild, his body temperature is normal, and he is visible and disease-free. It can be eaten at dawn or the next day, and the breeders call it a "gazing trough". The occurrence of donkey disease is closely related to weather, season, forage replacement, grass quality, feeding mode and so on. Therefore, it must be carefully observed in accordance with the general principles of feeding and management and the different requirements of different physiological conditions for feeding and management, so as to achieve "no disease prevention first, early treatment of disease, and know well".

In addition, the donkey can not afford to lie on the ground after illness, or although not lying on the ground but mentally tired, attached to the keeper does not leave, these are the performance of serious illness, should attract special attention.