Bovine Lameness And Laminitis

Correct grain overload keeping the animal moving and the claws cool.

Bovine lameness and laminitis.

Laminitis and lameness are the most significant diseases afflicting cattle. A hands on approach provides veterinarians researchers and cattle producers with an invaluable and handy resource for managing these problems. Antihistamines may be useful e g. The fourth chapter discusses the laminitis syndrome exclusively.

It covers in details the different etiologies signs and lesions and treatment and control of lameness. Cattle infected with mycoplasma bovis are at risk of joint infection. Equine and bovine laminitis are distinctly different. Digital disease including sole ulceration and white zone lesions is of great economic importance due to loss of milk production decreased weight gain and.

A hands on approach provides veterinarians researchers and cattle producers with an invaluable and handy resource for managing these problems. Injectable diphenhydramine 0 5 to 1 0 mg kg iv im. Although acute laminitis occurs in both species and can be caused by grain overload other etiologies can affect the equine laminae. Heavier cattle or cattle held on feed for too long are at a higher risk for lameness.

Chapters 5 6 8 9 and 10 deal with topics related to bovine lameness including nutritional risk factors cow comfort behavior and housing pasture managed cattle water and strategic use of micronutrient supplements. The swedish veterinary journal in 1896 reported inflammation of the claw corium is the most common cause of lameness and the often misshapen claw can be secondarily affected by a purulent process and or the claw capsule could fall off. High grain rations erratic feed consumption due to weather factors or feed supply problems and improper feed processing are risk factors for laminitis. A major difference between the two species is anatomic in that the lamellar laminar surface of the equine hoof is considerably more extensive than that of the cow.

Laminitis as such may cause lameness in dairy cattle but more important is its relation with the occurrence of sole ulceration and white zone lesions 28 40. Bovine laminitis has a shorter history in the literature than equine. Bovine laminitis and lameness. Laminitis claw disease digital dermatitis and foot rot.

Implications on laminitis james e. Laminitis and lameness are the most significant diseases afflicting cattle. Nocek agway research center research and development tully ny 13159 abstract bovine lactic acidosis syndrome is associated with large increases of lactic acid in the rumen which result from diets that are high in ruminally available carbohydrates or forage that is low in effective fiber or both. Nsaid non steroidal anti inflammatory drug injectable ketoprofen 2 to 4 mg kg im iv.

Since individual cows often have more than one cause for lameness at the same time it is important to understand the different types of lameness as well as the treatment and prevention protocols.