Diagnosis and treatment of mink animal fatty acidosis

Animal fatty acidosis

Animal fat, especially fish fat, contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which is easy to oxidize and turn yellow, which releases a sour taste and decomposes to produce harmful substances such as fish oil literacy, neurotoxicity and paralytic toxic. slow oxidation occurs at low temperature. Therefore, the fish feed that has been frozen for a long time is the main cause of mink competition and chronic yellow fat disease, especially the fish with high fat content, such as knife money and oil button fish, which is more serious, in addition, it is easy to cause the disease if we do not pay attention to the supply of vitamin E or insufficient supply in the feed.

Clinical symptoms:

Mink groups that are often fed with frozen fish and meat feed are easy to come to the point. Generally speaking, young minks with exuberant appetite or well-developed minks are the first to die, fall ill and die suddenly, and a large group of minks are anorexic and depressed. I don't want to have dysentery. Heavy later discharge coal tar sample black loose stool, or buckle body paralysis, abdominal urine temperature, often die in the wrong state.

The fat on both sides of the groin is palpated and the hand feels like hard kungfu pig fat or strong cord. Chronic diseased minks often have loss of appetite, weight loss and inactivity. Adult minks are prone to this disease and are easy to be confused with Aleutian disease.

Treatment:

Should immediately stop feeding spoilage animal feed, plus vitamin E. Focus on large groups of love only to check, touch the changes of inguinal fat, found that there are fat lumps or dysentery, should be listed as the object of treatment.

The sick mink was injected with vitamin E flowing fluid 0 every day. 5-1 ml, compound vitamin B injection 0. 5ml, penicillin 200000 units, dexamethasone 1. 25 mg, once a day for 3-5 days. Emaciated sick minks can be subcutaneously injected with 25% glucose, 5-10 ml.

Prevention:

Pay attention to the quality of feed, strengthen the management of cold storage, find fat yellowing or rancidity of fish, meat feed, should be disposed of or discarded in time. In addition, mink, which is mainly fed fish feed, must pay attention to or attach importance to the supply of vitamin E.