Symptoms, Prevention and treatment of nutritional failure in cattle

The phenomenon of nutritional exhaustion of cattle often occurs in cattle farms, causing cattle to become thinner and thinner, coupled with the fact that cattle will consume physical energy during exercise. During pregnancy or when they are sick, cattle do not want to eat, resulting in weight loss and physical decline. It is a headache for farmers. So what are the symptoms of cow nutritional exhaustion? How to prevent and cure? Let's take a look.

1. Symptoms of nutritional failure in cattle

The outstanding manifestations of cow nutritional failure are progressive weight loss, coarse egg coat, lack of luster, dry skin, reduced elasticity and easy desquamation. The color of the visual mucosa becomes pale, even pale, or there are different degrees of yellow staining; the change of body temperature is not obvious or sometimes decreases, the number of respiration and pulse changes greatly, quiet is less, and increases significantly after exercise, even dyspnea and palpitation.

2. Preventive measures

The prevention of this disease should strengthen feeding and management, reduce the occurrence of other diseases, in winter and early spring, the lack of forage, should be prepared in advance enough forage, and pay attention to cold and warm, in sunny days can let cattle bask in the sun, and keep the enclosure clean and hygienic. For pregnant cows and lactation cows, we must give them full price and adequate feed to ensure adequate nutrition. In addition, it is also necessary to prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases such as tuberculosis of dyspepsia, trypanosomiasis and fascioliasis.

3. Treatment of birth

In order to supplement nutrients, the treatment with drugs can be fed directly with dry yeast or mixed with feed, adding appropriate amount of artificial salt and sodium bicarbonate to feed or drinking water, and giving more wheat bran porridge, wheat paste, millet soup and high-quality green feed, these feeds are of high nutritional value and easy to digest. For cows with poor appetite, 5% glucose solution can be injected intravenously, each time 1000~1500ml, while injecting glucose solution, adenosine triphosphate can be injected intramuscularly, once a day, 200mg each time, but be careful not to use this drug when the body is extremely weak and the appetite is almost exhausted.

The above is the introduction of the symptoms and prevention measures of bovine nutritional failure. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please follow us.