Causes and prevention of acidosis in sheep

Sheep acidosis is a common fetter in the process of raising sheep, which is encountered by most farmers. Sick sheep often show loss of appetite, reduction or cessation of rumination, or mental excitement, and then become quiet. Many farmers often because the cognition is not comprehensive, in the treatment is a lot of errors and delay the disease, let's take a look at the causes of sheep acidosis and prevention and treatment.

1. Sheep grain acidosis

Rumen acidosis, also known as "harvest disease", is a dyspeptic disease that causes abnormal fermentation of lactic acid in the rumen and reduces the physiological activity of microbiota and ciliates because sheep only eat too much grain feed.

Prevention and control methods: for grain acidosis, first stop fertilizing, you can use paraffin oil 100g 150ml, magnesium hydroxide 15g, fish fat 2g, alcohol 20g 30ml, warm water appropriate amount, one time irrigation, this can eliminate the gastrointestinal grain to prevent fermentation. For sheep with severe symptoms, only infusion is needed, mainly cardiotonic infusion, which can be injected intravenously with glucose saline mixed with sodium camphor sulfonate.

2. Chronic acidosis

It is also caused by sheep eating silage and dross for a long time, because the acidity of this kind of feed is relatively large, which will cause the continuous accumulation of acidic substances, making the rumen fluid acidic, and acidosis will occur over a long period of time.

Prevention and treatment methods: to immediately stop feeding silage, dregs and other acidic feed, reduce symptoms, can be properly fed with some digestible green succulent feed and hay feed, and grain acidosis can also be treated by injection, the effect is excellent.

3. autologous acidosis

Autologous acidosis is caused by more acidic substances produced by sheep itself. it is because it cannot make full use of a nutritional and metabolic disease caused by decomposition and timely excretion of the body, such as excessive gastric acid secretion caused by sheep not feeding for a long time, or suffering from constipation, acid substances in the body can not be excreted, and so on, there will be autologous acidosis.

Prevention and treatment: the mixture of glucose saline, vitamin C injection and sodium camphor sulfonate can be injected intravenously, and sodium bicarbonate injection can be used to correct acidosis. Timely subcutaneous injection of compound vitamin B injection can improve the appetite of sheep and reduce autologous acidosis.

The above is the introduction of the causes and prevention methods of sheep acidosis. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please follow us.