An Introduction to Common Diseases in Donkey Farming and Their Treatment Methods
Meat donkeys have strong adaptability and many advantages such as strong disease resistance and tolerance of coarse feed, and their meat is very tender, bringing most farmers good economic returns. Below, let us look at an introduction to common diseases in donkey farming and their treatment methods.
I. An introduction to common diseases in donkey farming and their treatment methods
The types of diseases that donkeys suffer from, whether internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, infectious diseases or parasitic diseases, are all similar to those of horses, such as the common gastric dilation, constipation, colic and strangles. Because of the biological characteristics of donkeys, they differ from horses in disease resistance, clinical manifestations and responses to drugs, and therefore donkey diseases also have certain unique features in terms of causes, course, pathological changes and symptoms. For example, in the clinical manifestations of colic, horses show it very clearly, especially light horses; whereas donkeys mostly show it mildly, and may even show no external symptoms. Donkeys are sensitive to glanders, and after infection are prone to developing septicemia or pyosepticemia, while they have relatively strong resistance to infectious anemia.
Under the same conditions, donkeys do not suffer from sunstroke or heatstroke, whereas horses do. Of course, donkeys also have some unique diseases to which they are especially susceptible, such as moldy corn poisoning and the pre-partum loss of appetite in female donkeys carrying mule foals. Therefore, when diagnosing and treating donkey diseases, attention must be paid to this, and one must not rigidly apply the treatment experience for horses, but should treat them according to the characteristics of donkeys.
II. What kinds of insurance can be bought when raising donkeys?
1. Accidents. This refers to external, sudden, unforeseeable, unintentional and non-disease objective events that cause the direct death of the insured subject matter.
2. Infectious diseases (epidemics). This refers to the three categories of epidemics listed in the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China: Class I epidemics refer to epidemics that cause serious harm to humans and animals and require emergency, strict compulsory measures for prevention, control and eradication; Class II epidemics refer to epidemics that may cause major economic losses and require strict control, eradication and other measures to prevent their spread; Class III epidemics refer to common and frequently occurring epidemics that may cause major economic losses and require control and purification.
3. Non-infectious diseases. This refers to diseases other than the epidemics listed in the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China.
4. Dystocia. This refers to the birthing process in which, from full-term pregnancy to delivery, the fetus cannot be delivered smoothly, causing the direct death of the livestock or poultry mother.
5. Natural disasters. This refers to the general term for disasters that cause the direct death of the insured subject matter due to abnormal changes in natural conditions, such as rainstorms, floods, droughts and mudslides. 6. Stamping out. This refers to the actions of killing, burying or burning adopted by the government at or above the county level (inclusive) or the animal husbandry management department, targeting the insured subject matter within a certain range, in order to prevent the spread of an epidemic.
7. Others. This refers to disasters other than those listed above that cause the death of the insured subject matter.