The symptom of sheep white myopathy, how to prevent and cure?

Sheep white myopathy is a common regional nutritional genetic metabolic disease in lambs. the key is caused by the long-term lack of selenium and vitamin E in forage and concentrate fodder. the incidence of this disease is high, resulting in serious property losses to the farm. So what are the symptoms of sheep white myopathy? How to prevent it? Then let's master it together!

1. Symptoms of leukomyopathy of sheep

Sheep leukomyopathy is characterized by skeletal muscle and cardiac metastases. The lamb with light muscle color and whitening skin becomes more and more likely to get sick and die faster and faster. According to the current medical history, the lamb is divided into three kinds of disease: subacute, acute and diffuse.

1. Subacute type: sick sheep often die suddenly.

2. Acute type: the spirit of the sick sheep is essentially silent, the waist hardens, the hindquarters shake, and can not lie on the ground in the middle and later stage. The buttocks are swollen and the handle is hard. The inhalation accelerated, the pulse rate increased, and the lamb reached 120 times per minute. In the early stage, the heart beat increased, then the heart beat became weak, and arrhythmia occurred.

3. Diffuse type: the exercise of sick sheep is slow, the pace is unstable, and they like to lie down. The spirit is silent in essence, the appetite is not good, have the different addiction condition. Lack of gloss, yellowish-white mucosa, diarrhea, polyuria. Inhale faster.

Second, how to prevent leukomyopathy?

1. To improve the feeding management of pregnant ewes, ewes and lambs during lactation, to be able to add selenium and vitamin E premix to concentrate feed, and to inject 0.1% sodium selenite vitamin E mixture into ewes, it can have a very good effect in preventing leukomyopathy.

2. Sick lambs can be injected with 0.1% sodium selenite aqueous solution in the scalp and injected once every 20 days. In addition, vitamin E10~15mg is injected into the muscles of the whole body, which has a better effect.

3. Supplying 0.2% sodium selenite solution to ewes during pregnancy, subcutaneous tissue or subcutaneous injection, each 4~6ml, can prevent grade newborn lamb white myopathy.

All in all, this is the end of the detailed introduction on the prevention of leukomyosis. if the breeders want to improve the ability of the lambs to resist leukomyosis, this way is all very good, and we look forward to our understanding.