Treatment of lameness in sheep

Traumatic claudication means that sheep's hooves are stabbed by stones, iron shavings, glass ballast, or infected with bacteria due to cracks in the crown and stratum corneum, resulting in suppuration, inability to walk, or foot rot due to damp environment.

Treatment: the hooves should be trimmed in time and the foreign bodies punctured into the hooves should be removed as soon as possible. If the hoof and fork have rotted and suppurated, you can wash it with 1%-2% potassium permanganate solution, and then apply 10% iodine tincture. If there are holes or holes in the bottom of the hoof, 5% copper sulfate powder or 5% sodium salicylate powder can be filled into the hole (hole), and then coated with pine distillate or antibiotic ointment. In order to prevent septicemia, we should also pay attention to systemic treatment with penicillin, streptomycin and broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Viral claudication such as sheep infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus, the limbs often alternate weight, and shake the hind limbs, the occurrence of claudication, severe long-term prone, difficult to stand up.

Treatment: all sheep were vaccinated with attenuated vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease. When diseased sheep are found, strict isolation, fixed feeding and management equipment, and strict disinfection should be carried out. For the seriously affected areas, it is necessary to kill them on the spot and carry out harmless treatment.

Malnourished claudication refers to vitamin D deficiency, calcium and phosphorus deficiency or imbalance in sheep, resulting in claudication and bone deformities. Because of osteoporosis, it is also easy to cause sheep fracture or joint swelling.

Treatment: for claudication caused by malnutrition and poor management, feeding management can be strengthened. The forage grass should be diversified and bone meal should be added to the feed. For seriously diseased sheep, 5000 ~ 20 000 IU of vertin colloidal calcium injection can be injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously, and the diseased sheep can be fed with a diet rich in vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C and compound vitamin B. Adult sheep can also be given cod liver oil 10 to 20 milliliters, lambs with cod liver oil 5 milliliters, with appropriate amount of sugar calcium tablets, once orally taken for several days. Especially seriously diseased sheep can be injected intravenously with 100 ml (adult sheep) of 3% calcium hypophosphite solution, once a day for 3 to 5 days. For claudication caused by severe calcium deficiency, 50 ml of 10% calcium gluconate can be injected intravenously.