Medical Management of Rumen Collapse in Cows (original) (raw)
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India possess huge livestock population, which is endangered by different endemic infectious diseases (bacterial, viral, protozoan and parasitic), which collectively causes significant economic losses to the landless poor farming community. Infectious diseases impose economic losses by causing morbidity, mortality, decreased production (milk, meat, wool etc.), decreased feed conversion ratio which results in reduced weight gain, decreased draught power and fertility. Furthermore, economic burden is also due to the cost of treatment, abortion, consequences on internal livestock movement, germplasm and international trade. In addition, some of the diseases are zoonotic and inflicts considerable impact on public health. Uncertain agrarian climate, unpredictable weather, drought, floods, migration of livestock, scarcity of fodders, and unhygienic zoo-sanitary and healthcare practices together resulted in endemicity of diseases ultimately leads to more incidence and prevalence of livesto...
Enteral Feeding of 3 Mature Cows by Rumenostomy
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2005
R umenostomy is the creation of a permanent or semipermanent rumen fistula. Permanent rumen fistulation is performed to facilitate nutritional research or provide rumen fluid donors. 1,2 Transfaunation is an effective adjunctive therapy in cattle recovering from surgery. 2 Texts have recommended the use of rumenostomy to provide symptomatic relief in cattle with recurrent bloat. 1 This report describes the use of rumenostomy and enteral feeding as adjunctive therapy in cows unable to eat or drink. Repeated oroesophageal intubation may not be tolerated by many cattle and the diameter of stomach tubes typically precludes provision of large volumes of feedstuffs.
to report the four years clinical diseases of ruminants. A total of 1241 clinical cases (793 cattle and 448 goats) were recorded and analyzed. Diagnosis of each of the clinical cases was made on clinical history, clinical signs, and faecal examination for parasitic cases. The clinical cases were primarily categorized into three major groups, namely, (1) Medicinal, (2) Gynaeco-obstetrical and (3) Surgical cases. Medicinal cases constituted highest percentage (cattle 84.1% and goats 81.0%) in comparison to gynaeco-obstetrical (cattle 4.7% and goats 1.1%) and surgical (cattle 11.2% and goats 17.9%) cases. Among the medicinal cases in cattle, highest percentage of cases was recorded with parasitic diseases (50.4%), followed by general systemic states (14.8%) and digestive disorders (14.2%). Other cases were respiratory disorders (5.5%), infectious diseases (4.6%), skin conditions (3.4%), eye disease (3.1%), urogenital disorders (1.5%), metabolic diseases (1.3%) and musculo-skeletal disorders (0.9%). In case of goats, the highest cases was recorded with digestive disorders (22.9%), followed by parasitic diseases (20.4%) and respiratory disorders (16.8%). Other Medicinal cases in goats were eye diseases (13.5%), infectious diseases (11.8%), general systemic states (9.6%), musculo-skeletal disorder (3.3%), skin diseases (0.8%) and nutritional deficiency diseases (0.8%). Among the gynaeco-obstetrical cases, anestrus (59.5%) in cattle and metritis (40.0%) in goats were recognized as the major gynaeco-obstetric problems. Traumatic wounds (cattle-52.8%, goat-28.8%) and castration (31.3%) in goats were recognized as the main disorders which required surgical interventions. It may be concluded that a number of diseases with various percentages have been occurring in the Babugonj upazila and this report will help to prioritize any control measures against major disease conditions reported in this study. However, it is required to estimate the prevalence of diseases in the population of that upazila to have more comprehensive information on the diseases of cattle and goat.
A Retrospective Study on Common Health Problems in Ruminants
Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences
The reason for performing post-mortem examination is to uncover the possible cause(s) of death in animals. Retrospective study based on post-mortem records was previously highlighted as useful for general surveillance of animal health conditions and diseases. This article describes a retrospective study involving carcasses of ruminants that were presented to the Post-Mortem Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Twelveyear post-mortem records of ruminant cases between January 2006 and December 2017 were gathered. A total of 802 ruminant cases were analyzed, comprising of 491 goat, 118 cattle, 95 cervine, 75 sheep, and 23 gaur cases. Failure of the circulatory system (32.6%) was recorded to be the most significant (p<0.05) body system affected, followed by the respiratory (23.2%) and alimentary systems (15.1%). Septicaemia (63.8%, n=229), bacterial pneumonia (51.2%, n=203), and gastrointestinal parasitism (51.2%, n=136) were significantly (p<0.05) the most frequently reported cases for the respective systems. Pulmonary congestion and oedema were the histopathological lesions most frequently reported in cases of septicaemia. In cases of bacterial pneumonia, bacterial colonies and inflammatory cells were commonly observed. Parasites were often observed microscopically following gastrointestinal parasitism. The significance of the findings was further discussed. E. coli, Pasteurella spp., and K. pneumoniae were important species/genus contributing to septicaemia and/or bacterial pneumonia in ruminants. Data collected from this study would be a valuable resource for the formulation of more effective preventive measures or strategies against these commonly reported diseases. The results presented in this study are valuable in formulating preventive strategies against these common health problems.
Nigerian Journal of Animal Production, 2020
In the present study, the prevalence, clinical manifestation, pathology and causes of rumen impaction in sheep and goats were determined from 6 years postmortem records, of the Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, for proper management of the condition. The prevalence was calculated as percentage of occurrence of rumen impaction among cases presented for postmortem examination; as overall, annual, age and sex-specific. The overall prevalence was 16.05%; and was higher in sheep (23.53%) than in goats (10.64%). Annual prevalence varied from 7.14 in 2014 to 25.00% in 2017. Higher prevalence was recorded in adult (23.81%) and female (21.43%) than in young (7.69%) and male (10.26%) animals. Clinical findings included distended abdomen, dullness, anorexia, fever; difficulty in breathing, recumbency and anaemia. Grossly the abdomens were distended; there were severe frothy exudates in the trachea and air ways. The...
A Retrospective Study of Small Ruminant Diseases Identified at the.pdf
A retrospective study was conducted to determine the distribution of diseases of sheep and goats encountered at the State Veterinary Hospital, Maiduguri, between the years 2009 to 2013. A total of 1298 cases were documented during the time period. Diseases occurrence was found to be higher in sheep (89.0%) than in goats (11.0%). The most frequent diseases of sheep were parasitic (34.5%), digestive (15.2%) and surgical conditions (13.2%). Similarly, infectious diseases (24.5%), parasitic diseases (21.7%) and surgical conditions (18.2%) were encountered in goats. Highest and lowest clinical cases were registered in the years 2009 and 2010, respectively. The study showed that the occurrence of diseases are similar in both species. It is recommended that animal owners and health service providers should make available necessary drugs and equipment in advance for the management of these frequent clinical diseases especially when the peak season for these disease approaches. Furthermore, animals should be immunized for the common diseases of small ruminants on periodical basis.
Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2012
This preface outlines the context for initiating the special issue, comments on the review process, provides a brief summary of the papers in this issue and discusses some implications of these papers concerning rumen health.
Studies on Ruminal Disorders in Sheep
Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 2014
Fifty two adult native breed Egyptian sheep were suffering from ruminal indigestion. The animals were divided into three groups, based on clinical signs and ruminal pH. The number of diseased cases with ruminal acidosis were 20, ruminal alkalosis 17 and those with ruminal tympany 15. In addition, 12 clinically adult sheep were used as control. Most cases with ruminal indigestion showed partial or complete anorexia, loss of body condition, abdominal pain, cessation of rumination and abdominal distension. Such signs differ according to the disease condition. Ruminal samples were collected from all animals and transferred to the laboratory for biophysical and biochemical analysis. All samples collected from diseased cases showed changes in the microbial activity as indicated by retardation in times of SAT, MBRT and CDT. Also, the values (m1) of GFT were increased especially in cases with ruminal tympany. All cases with ruminal dysfunction showed reduction in values and percentages of total and differential protozoal count. Biochemical analysis of ruminal fluid revealed variations in the values of sodium, potassium, chlorides and lactates among the types of indigestion.
Evaluating the Effects of Rumenocentesis on Health and Performance in Dairy Cows
Acta Veterinaria Brno, 2010
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the rumenocentesis procedure on dairy cows by determining selected metabolic and physiological variables representing the health status. Two groups of 6 cows either underwent rumenocentesis (GA) or sham (GB) procedures. Superficial skin temperature of the rumenocentesis area was measured using infrared thermography before the procedure (-1 h), immediately after (0 h), and at 48 h, 96 h, and 20 days following rumenocentesis. Blood samples were collected at all times, except for immediately after the procedure (0 h), and selected immunologic response variables were determined. Milk yield and rectal temperatures were measured daily. Rumenocentesis did not influence the white blood cell count, haptoglobin or total protein concentrations. Electrophoretic protein fractions were not different between GA and GB treatments. Milk yield and rectal temperature were not affected by rumenocentesis. Skin temperature of the rumenocentesis r...