Nursing Care of cattle during Perinatal period

After the cattle enter the perinatal period, the conditional pastures should set up delivery rooms, or at least concentrate on raising and setting up birth beds. The delivery bed should be dry, ventilated and quiet. After the cattle are concentrated, special personnel should be sent to feed them and prepare sufficient obstetrical supplies. Increase grazing before and after calving (can reduce dystocia and facilitate recovery). However, old and inconvenient cattle should stop grazing to avoid falling. Cattle delivery should be natural delivery as far as possible, if the need for midwifery, disinfection must be in place. The following tasks should be done well after childbirth.

1. Feed warm brown sugar water immediately after delivery (as above). Cattle should stand up after giving birth. Change the bedding grass in time, keep it dry and soft, pay attention to the bleeding of reproductive tract and the excretion of placenta, and do reproductive tract examination in time if abnormal.

2. Postpartum milking. The amount of milking on the first day after delivery can be 1 beat 3 of the daily output, and can be increased gradually after the second day, and the milk fever can be effectively prevented by the recovery of lactation and digestive function from the 4th to 5th day.

3, the natural discharge of placenta from cattle should only be done according to the changes of lochia, so as to rinse the uterus with drugs, and the drugs had better be used alternately. If the placenta does not fall off the cattle, if the calving lasts more than 12 hours from August to September, the uterus should be treated. It is best to combine systemic treatment to prevent the occurrence of other complications. Uterine rehabilitation is controlled from 15 to 20 days postpartum, which is beneficial to early postpartum estrus, reduce uterine inflammation and maintain normal calving interval.

4. once digestive tract and metabolic diseases occur during the perinatal period, they should be diagnosed and treated in time. There should be a 24-hour duty system during the peak calving period. Cattle go to the trough for observation, and in the event of refusing to eat, a general diagnosis should be made. The systemic immunity of cattle is often poor in the early postpartum period. If milking worker slightly carelessly can cause newborn cow mastitis, at this time mastitis is often more fierce, must be early treatment, to avoid causing other diseases.