Treatment of fox red claw disease

(1) Clinical symptoms

Red claw disease is actually vitamin C deficiency in newborn animals such as mink, raccoon dog, fox and so on. Its performance: newborn animal limbs, toe pad red, between the toes broken, bleeding, erosion, showing purplish red; sucking ability is weak, constantly issued a weak squeak, crawling in the nest; some joints become thicker, tail edema and redness, rotting off the tip of the tail. It is mainly harmful to the inner offspring at the age of 10 days, and most of them show nest hair, and if not treated in time, they will die within 5 days.

(2) treatment methods

Usually should be given full-price nutritional feed, especially pregnant mothers, in addition to adding green fresh vegetables in the diet, vitamin C 25 mg should be added every day. For sick young animals, you can take vitamin C solution twice a day, about 10 drops each time, and give the mother animal intramuscular injection of vitamin C injection, twice a day, 0.51ml each time. A sufficient amount of cod liver oil in mother diet will help to shorten the course of disease and promote the curative effect.