Ibrahim Saleem (Abu Dhabi)
The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority called on livestock breeders to take care of herds of sheep, especially prenatal mothers, in order to grow the herd and reduce abortions. Young children to avoid death, diseases include:
“Diarrhea” The authority indicated that the diagnosis of diarrhea differs according to the cause. If it is caused by a microbial infection, the diarrhea is characterized by its yellow color and is watery and can be treated by antibiotics, sulfate compounds and vitamins. In the case of diarrhea resulting from eating excessive amounts of breast milk, diarrhea It is white in color and can be overcome by stopping feeding the lambs on milk, regulating feeding times, and giving them antibiotics with medicines that prevent dehydration.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is one of the common diseases in lambs, and it may lead to death, and it is caused by exposure of lambs to sharp differences in temperature, or by microbial infection from large animals, and may result from poor ventilation in the barns, and symptoms of the disease are coughing and approaching the animal and difficulty Breathing with high temperature, congestion of the mucous membranes, loss of appetite and low weight. The treatment requires isolating infected lambs and injecting antibiotics, as well as paying attention to the ventilation of the barns, taking into account the provision of a balanced diet. Which makes it similar to meat, also notes inflammation in the lymph nodes.
Urinary stones
Urinary stones are often formed when lambs are fattened on concentrated diets or their dependence on drinking water sources from salt water or imbalance in the provided ration, and one of the symptoms of the disease is urine output in the form of drops as a result of obstruction of the urethra, and the stones are inside the kidney basin, we also note the standing of the pregnancy is curved It is possible to prevent the formation of urinary stones by: “taking into account the balance of the diets provided to the lambs,” especially in the proportion of calcium and phosphorous, and adding vitamin A to the diet of lambs as well as aluminum chloride, “forcing lambs to drink a lot of water and that Adding table salt to food.
“white muscle”
This disease is common in agricultural areas with clay soil, where the concentration of selenium is low in its cultivation and the symptoms resulting from this disease are the difficulty of movement in lambs, and may lead to paralysis and to treat this problem lambs are injected with selenium solution.
Intestinal poisoning
It is a disease caused by a bacterial infection caused by feeding lambs on a large amount of grain or feeding a large amount of milk, and this condition can be treated with antibiotic injections.
constipation
It is the difficulty of dropping the dung from the pregnancy when it dries up, noting the animal’s anxiety and arching of its back, and the back area of the lamb’s body appears dirty with solid waste attached to wool, and this problem is treated by giving the lamb 25-100 ml of mineral oil according to age.
“Omphalitis”
It is a disease resulting from microbial contamination of the umbilical region of newly born lambs, and it leads to death. The symptoms of the disease include high fever, lack of breastfeeding, lack of movement, and then death. It is treated by immunizing ewes two months before birth, taking into account the cleaning of their birth places, and caring for the disinfection of the umbilical area for newborns. With 70% alcohol or iodine solution.