The clinical presentation and diagnosis of metabolic diseases in ewes - Dr Bruce Watt
Key information
Overview
***PLEASE NOTE: at present this event is incorrectly charging SCGV members. AVA are working on rectifying this issue and will advise when corrected. Please email [email protected] to be registered. Thanks for your patience!*** A range of conditions including metabolic diseases affect pre- and post-partum ewes. The clinical presentation and diagnosis of these diseases will be discussed.
Who should attend
Sheep veterinarians; mixed practitioners; new grads; students
Learning outcome
The metabolic diseases pregnancy toxaemia, hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia can affect pre- and post-partum ewes. A range of other conditions also affect periparturient ewes and can confuse the clinical presentation and diagnosis. These conditions include foot abscess leading to pregnancy toxaemia and hypocalcaemia, lactic acidosis, mastitis, toxaemia, enteric conditions and ewes that are weak from undernutrition.
Pregnancy toxaemia only affects ewes before lambing and hypomagnesaemia (in my experience) only affects lactating ewes but hypocalcaemia can affect ewes both pre- and post-lambing.
Further confusing the clinical presentation and diagnosis, ewes can become primarily affected by pregnancy toxaemia with secondary hypocalcaemia and vice versa. Both the history, clinical presentation and laboratory testing can confirm the diagnosis, but to make a diagnosis typical early cases are most useful while chronic cases can be misleading.
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