ruminant diseasw

Seen in adults that do nit nirmally exhibit clinical signs. Ulcerations of the small intesting

Struck

Occurs in lamb/kids within the first few days of life

• Causes infection of the small jntestine, resulting in bloody diarrhea/ death without clinical signs

Enterotoxic hemorrhagic enteritis

Often related to indigestion

• Predisposed by an overabundance of milk

Enterotoxemia

Pulpy kidney/overeating disease

• Occur in lambs less than two weeks old, affecting the fastest growing lambs/kids

• Sudden change in feed causes this organism

Enterotoxemia type d

Clostridium tetani

• When bacteria gains entry to the body through contaminated break in the skin

• rigid, exhibit muscle spasms

Tetanus

Contagious exthyma

• Viral skin disease, caused by pox virus that requires a break in the skin to enter the body

• Scabs or blisters in the lips, nose, udder and teats

Soremouth

Barber pole worm

• Most dangerous blood sucking parasite affecting sheep and goats

• Anemia, edema, protein loss, death

Haemonchus contortus

The accumulation of fluid under the skin

• Bottle jaw- swelling of the lower jaw

Edema

Weight-loss, unthriftiness, gastrointestinal upsent

• Yellowish white segment in the feces

• Common in young animals

Tapeworms

Parasites that damage the lining of small intestine

• Found in animals in confinement or intensive grazing systems

• Weightloss stunted growth, diarrhea containing blood and mucous

Coccidia

Drugs that kill egg laying adults/ kill larvae before they grow

Anthelmintics

Pierce the skin and suck blood

• Found on neck, shoulders, and flanks

• Cause wool discoloration and affects hide quality

Keds

Can be diagnose by doing skin scraping

Mange

Fever, temperature over 104F, moist painful cough, dyspnea

Pneumonia

caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum and dichelobacter nodosus

Footrot

Infects only the area between the toes and often clears up quickly

Foot scald

Bacteria enters the hoof and digest the hard, horny tissue of the sole that protects the fleshy tissue of the hoof

Virulent footrot

Condition that affects the lymphatic system, resulting in the abscesses in the lymph node and internal organs

• Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Caseous lymphadenitis

Listeria monocytogenes

• Ingest by grazing pastures contaminated by feces containinng the bacteria

• Most prevalent in the soil and molded areas of silage

Listeriosis

Results in late pregnancy abortions or stillbirths

• Common in ewes than in does

Campylobacter infections

Cause abortions during the last 2-3 weeks of gestation

Chlamydia infections

Is a parasite of cats and rodents

Toxoplasma

Leptospira interrogans

• Transmitted when animal come into contact with standing water with bacteria

Leptospirosis

Also known as jaundice, is a condition where the skin and white of the eyes appear yellow due to accumulation of bilirubin

Icterus

Coxiella burnetti, shed in milk, urine, feces

• the infected placenta will be covered with gray brown secretion

Q fever

Subacute: incoordination, weakness, tremors, blindness, depression

Acute: dead, comatose, muscle contractions/seizures

• Necropsy lesions in the CNS

• thiamine deficiency

Polioencephalomacia

Degenerative muscle disease

• Deficiency in selenium/vit e

White muscle disease

Late gestation

• Occurs in either fat or thin animals that carry two or more feti

• Develops when the ewe or doe cannot ingest enough nutrients

Pregnancy toxemia/ketosis

Often referred to as grain overload

• Excessive consumption of carbs

Lactic acidosis