How to treat 4 common diseases in buffalo and cows during hot season

Below are ways to recognize and prevent common summer diseases in buffalo and cows.

1. Diarrhea

* Symptom:The disease is more common in calves than in adult buffaloes and cows. In the early stages of the disease, animals are often tired, eat poorly, drink a lot of water, and have loose stools that are gray-yellow or gray-green in color and have an unpleasant fishy smell.

When severe, calves have watery stools, sometimes with blood, dehydration, loss of body salts and death due to exhaustion; If not treated promptly, the mortality rate of calves is 30 - 40%, so it is necessary to detect the disease early to have treatment measures.

* Treatment:In addition to medicationAtropine injection at a dose of 1ml/15 - 20kg body weight,In severe cases, isotonic sugar solution or saline solution must be administered intravenously to calves at a dose of 0.5 - 0.8 liters/calf.

In addition, combine 300g of guava leaves or black alum leaves + 1 liter of water and boil for calves to drink 1 - 2 times/day, each time from 0.2 - 0.5 liters.

2. Roundworm disease in calves

* Symptom:The disease usually occurs in early summer, often seen in calves from 1 to 3 months old.When infected with worms, the calf has symptoms of slow gait, bowed head, and drooped tail; when the disease is severe, the calf stops eating, lies in one place, and kicks its legs toward its belly.

Because roundworms take over nutrients and secrete toxins into the blood, calves become weak and emaciated.digestive disorders; usually die of exhaustion at a rate of about 30 - 40%.

* Treatment:For calves under 2 months old, use Levamisol injection, combined with Vitamin ADE; For calves over 2 months old, in addition to injection, other external parasites such as ticks, lice, etc. should be eliminated.

Calves in disease-affected areas need to be dewormed periodically at 20 days old and 1 month old.

3. Pasteurellosis

* Symptom:Pasteurellosis is a disease caused by many different types of bacteria; it is highly contagious, mainly through the digestive and respiratory tracts and contact between sick and healthy cattle and buffaloes due to eating straw, grass or water contaminated with pathogens.

- Hyper-acute form: The disease progresses and causes the animal to die very quickly; before death, there are neurological symptoms, insanity, red eyes, then cyanosis, collapse and death.

- Acute form: Pets stop eating, red eye mucosa, tongue sticks out and cannot move, saliva flows in streams or has white foam; no belching, chewing, and distended abdomen, difficulty breathing, wheezing; initially constipation, then diarrhea with blood.

* Treatment:Use antibiotics according to the recommended dosage of the veterinarian; can supplement with 1,000ml of 0.9% NaCl electrolyte solution per day.

4.Blood parasite disease (b)ciliated disease)

* Symptom:Sick buffaloes and cows will have difficulty walking, be picky eaters, have loose stools, pale conjunctivitis, and be weak but still eat grass. Sometimesfever 40 - 41^oC, but with intermittent, irregular fever.

Usually the illness lasts for months, and if the animal does not die, recovery is slow and prolonged.

* Treatment:Pay attention to early detection and timely treatment, combining the following 3 measures:Use antiparasitic drugs such as Phenoltridinium Naganin; CCows and buffaloes should eat fresh grass, mixed concentrate, supplemented with minerals and vitamins;Increase sanitation of barns and surrounding environment, destroy horseflies and gnats.