The Use of Antibiotics for Treatment of Clinical Mastitis Introduction Mastitis is the most common disease of dairy cows and the most common reason that cows are treated with antibiotics . Mastitis is a bacterial infection of the udder which causes inflammation (host defenses responding to the infection). What Types of Bacteria Cause Clinical Mastitis? What Should We Consider before Treating Mastitis? Dairy farmers should work closely with their herd veterinarian to help develop treatment protocols, provide oversight for appropriate drug use, and monitor the success of treatment.Intramammary antibiotic tubes…
Category: Veterinary Drugs
Essential Drugs for Specific Purposes in the livestock treatment
Drugs for livestock care Drugs are allowed in organic farming as per veterinary recommendations but alternative medicine is preferred. Preventive use of drugs is forbidden and antibiotics can be used a limited times, with a double withdrawal time. Animal health care is still not sufficiently developed that we can keep livestock healthy without veterinary drugs. In Europe and the USA great progress has been made towards the use of homeopathic veterinary medicine which in many instances has shown its applicability to certain health problems. In Africa ethnoveterinary solutions are also commonly used…
Natural Mediacines for Chickens
Alternative veterinary medicine include photon therapy (laser), acupuncture, homeopathy, veterinary manipulative therapy, phytotherapy, integrative nutrition, acupuncture, botanical medicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, massage therapy, and nutraceuticals. Herbal Remedies and Supplements in the Treatment and Prevention of Various Diseases of Poultry. Parts of plants can be: Leaves, Barks, Seeds, Flowers or Fruits. Importance of using herbal remedies: • Easily accessible. • Easy to use. • Cheap • They treat well if used properly • They are harmless. Some Herbicides: 1. Neem (Leaves, Roots, Barks): It treats the following diseases: • Typhoid. • Prevention…
Disease Treatment, Control & Prevention (Ticks, Wounds,Vaccination)
Prevention of diseases is always both better and cheaper than treatment. Even if vaccines and other preventive measures may seem expensive, they are in the long run much cheaper than loosing animals or letting animals suffer and loose condition and buying expensive drugs – not to mention the fees of the vets. The following public and private disease prevention measures also protects the rights of the animals to a worthy enjoyable life and are the pillars of good and successful management. Hygiene / Insect and Tick control Many serious diseases are transferred…
Salmonella in poultry I Mshindo Media
Basically, salmonella is a faecal-oral infection. Infected birds can clear themselves of infection after some time, but some excrete bacteria in droppings for several months. It is practically impossible to rid a salmonella infected flock from the infection when kept on permanent beddingSalmonella in poultry can be regarded as two types of infection: the first is primarily of importance for public health (what we usually call “salmonella” and which may cause illness in man). Salmonella in humans is from an international perspective often linked to the consumption of eggs, meat or…