Summary of ruminant neurology

Question 1

Conditions seen regularly

Answer 1

• Listeriosis
• Bacterial meningitis
• CCN
• Ovine pregnancy toxaemia
• Sciatic and obturator nerve injury after calving
• Hypomagnesaemia in cattle
• BVD/Border dz (the viruses are common but clinical neurological dz less so)

Question 2

Conditions seen sporadically in general or more commonly in certain locations or on some farms

Answer 2

• Nervous ketosis
• Other traumatic nerve injuries in cattle
• All traumatic nerve injuries in sheep/goats
• Spinal abscess
• Inherited cerebellar hypoplasia
• Swayback
• Gid
• Looping ill
• Tetanus and botulism
• Spastic paresis (calves)
• Lead toxicity

Question 3

Conditions only seen occasionally

Answer 3

• Brain abscess
• Vitamin A deficiency
• BSE/scrapie
• Nervous coccidiosis
• Hypernatraemia
• Hypomagnesaemia in sheep