STUDY HELPERS Sheep Flashcards
What is the most common crystal in urolithiasis and how is it formed and where does it end up?
Struvite
High concentrations of Ph and Mg > combines with protein in bladder > form calculi > gets stuck in sigmoid flexure or vermiform appendage
What is the agent of Pink Eye?
Mycoplasma conjunctivae
How do you treat Pink Eye?
Oxytet IM
What is Bright Blindness?
Prolonged ingestion of bracken in hill sheep
How do you treat entropion?
AB (penicillin) SubQ
Michel clips or surgery (strip skin)
What is the lambing percentage?
The number of lambs born and survive to weaning per 100 ewes
How do you treat watery mouth?
IV flunixin
oral dextrose/electrolyte
Enema
ABs
What is the common agent of joint ill?
Strep. dysgalactiae
What are the clinical signs of Meningitis?
isolation, failure to suck, episcleral congestion, weak, altered gat, hyperasthesia, opisthotonus
What agents are the culprits behind lamb bacteraemias?
E. coli, P. haemolytica, P. multocida, T. pyogenes, Staph, Strep
What agent causes liver abscess in lambs?
F. necrophorum
How can you treat/prevent iodine deficiency in lambs?
Iodine oil injection in ewe before mating
KI oral when clinical case in lambs
What are the agents of neonatal enteritis?
Rota/coronavirus, Crypto, Salmonella, Lamb dysentery, E. coli
How do you treat neonatal enteritis?
Crypto: Fluids
Salmonella: Flunixin, fluids, AB
E. coli: fluids
How do you diagnosis neonatal enteritis caused by salmonella?
faceal cultur or from liver, gallbladder, SI, or mesenteric LN at PM
Describe the pathogeneisis of C. perfringens.
Normally in gut
Sudden change in diet > anaerboic abomasal and SI and high CHO > gut stasis > C. perfringens build up > toxin build up
Describe the vaccination protocol for C. perfringens.
Initial 2-dose course 4-6 weeks apart when entering breeding flock. Booster 6 week pre-lambing
Lambs born to unvax ewes: first dose 8-12 weeks with booster 4 weeks later
What areh the clinical signs of Blackleg?
Limbs: stiff, edema
Parturition: erosion of vulval mucosa with dark red and gassy necrosis
Blackquarter metritis: edematous uterus fetus dead
Head: bleeding from nose and swelling
How do you diagnose Blackleg?
Positive flourescein antibody test from smears
How do you treat Blackleg?
Clean and debride wounds
Penicillin
Steroids
Fluids
Describe the pathogenesis of tetanus.
Cut (docking/shearing) > incuabtion period of 1-3 weeks > neurotoxin reaches brain via peripheral nerves > spinal cord > rigidity > death due to paralysis of respiratory muscles
How do you treat tetanus?
Antitoxin, AB, NSAIDs
Describe the pathogenesis of redgut.
Lush pasture > INCREASED gut transit time > fermentation in LI > gas > torsion > death
What are the clinical signs of scald?
interdigital erythema
white necrotic material
NO underrun horn or smell
What are the clinical signs of foot rot?
SMELL and underrun horn
looks like scald + purulent discharge
What are the clinical signs of CODD?
Severely lame
hair loss below fetlock joints
How do you treat scald? foot rot? CODD?
Scald:
Oxytet spray
Footbaths of 10% zinc and 0.3% formalin
Dry ground 1 hr after foot bath
Foot rot: Oxytet parentral Meloxicam Footvax DO NOT PARE
CODD:
Oxytet
What is flushing?
high protein and energy diet for ewe 3-weeks pre-tupping in order to increase ovulation/conception rates
works best on marginal BCS ewes