What are common sheep diseases?
Sheep can be infected with various clostridial diseases – black leg, botulism, malignant edema, red water disease, enterotoxemias (several types), and tetanus. The most common are enterotoxemia types C & D and tetanus.
What disease is fatal to sheep?
Scrapie is an always fatal disease that affects the central nervous system of sheep (and goats).
How do you treat pulpy kidney in sheep?
Some options:
- Coglavax is usually given at 8 weeks old (can be given at 2 weeks if ewe was unvaccinated)
- Covexin can be given from 2 weeks of age.
- Multivax P is usually given at 4 weeks if ewe was vaccinated (can be given at a week old if ewe was unvaccinated)
What are signs of pulpy kidney in sheep?
Post-mortem signs (in recently dead sheep)
- haemorrhages under the skin and on the heart and kidney.
- straw-coloured or blood-tinged fluid, sometimes with soft, jelly-like clots in the sac around the heart.
- small intestines tear easily and their contents are sparse and creamy.
- carcass decomposes within a few hours of death.
Why is my sheep foaming at the mouth?
Frothy bloat occurs after rapid engorgement of high protein, highly digestible feed that results in formation of excess amounts of stable foam in the rumen. Free gas bloat occurs when any physical (obstruction) or functional problem prevents normal eructation of rumen gas (burping).
How do you treat coccidiosis in sheep?
Diclazuril (1 mg/kg) is an effective oral anticoccidial in lambs and is administered once at ~6–8 wk of age (most common) or twice (at 3–4 wk of age and again 3 wk later). Sulfaquinoxaline in drinking water at 0.015% concentration for 3–5 days may be used to treat affected lambs.
What is Schmallenberg disease in cattle?
The disease causes transient clinical symptoms in adult cattle (fever, diarrhoea, reduced milk yield, etc.) and congenital malformation in newborn ruminants. Genetic analysis of the Schmallenberg virus genome shows that this virus is part of the Simbu serogroup of the Bunyaviridae family, genus Orthobunyavirus.
What is Schmallenberg virus?
Genetic analysis of the Schmallenberg virus genome shows that this virus is part of the Simbu serogroup of the Bunyaviridae family, genus Orthobunyavirus .Observational studies revealed that the virus is transmitted via insect vectors, mainly midges. The virus has been identified in pools of heads of Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides dewulfi.
Is there a commercial ELISA kit for the detection of Schmallenberg virus?
A commercial ELISA kit for the detection of anti-Schmallenberg virus antibodies in ruminant serum and plasma is available. Animal health: Schmallenberg virus isolated from ruminants in the European Union