How to prevent and treat braxy in sheep? These methods you need to master

Braxy in sheep is an acute infectious disease caused by Clostridium septicum infecting through the digestive tract, mainly occurring in sheep. Clostridium septicum is often distributed in the form of spores in low-lying grasslands, cultivated land and swamps. When sheep eat contaminated feed and drinking water, the spores enter the sheep's digestive tract, and most do not become ill. When the climate changes abruptly, with continuous rain and cold seasons in autumn and winter, causing sheep to catch cold or their disease resistance to decline, Clostridium septicum multiplies in large numbers and produces exotoxins that cause illness and death.

Characteristics

The onset is sudden, with death occurring while grazing or in the morning without visible symptoms. Acutely ill sheep show reluctance to walk, loss of coordination, distended abdomen, abdominal pain, diarrhea, teeth grinding, convulsions, and finally weakness and coma, with bloody foam flowing from the mouth. Most die within a few minutes to a few hours, and the course of the disease is extremely short.

Prevention and treatment

1. Use the sheep triple vaccine for preventive injection. The wet vaccine is given twice a year in spring and autumn, and the attenuated vaccine once a year.

2. Sheep are best kept in sheds to prevent them from accidentally eating feed and drinking water contaminated by the pathogen while grazing.

3. Pay attention to keeping the shed warm and well ventilated. Feed changes should be made gradually, not suddenly.

4. Treatment: Intramuscular injection of penicillin, 800,000-1,600,000 units each time, with the first dose doubled, 3 times a day, for 3-4 days. Or oral sulfaguanidine 0.2 g/kg body weight, halved on the second day, for 3-4 consecutive days.

Braxy in sheep is mainly based on prevention.