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Foetal? Parturient? Neonatal? Yearling?
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2
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Normal losses of neonates
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3
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Why aren’t calves like little cows?
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4
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Principles of treatment of calves
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5
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Diseases of calves
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6
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Flow chart for calf rearing
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7
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Calf management and its effect on health
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8
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The 3 Q’s of colostrum
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Quickly: first 6-8 hrs
Quality: SG > 1.060 or Brix reading of > 30%
Quantity: 1-4L
9
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Disease in neonatal calves
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* Infection– local and generalized
* diarrhoea
10
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11
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Navel Ill
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12
Q
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Umbilical hernia
13
Q
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Joint ill
14
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15
Q
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Ruptured ulcer (pinkeye) with iris plugs
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17
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Septicaemia
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18
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Diarrhoea in calves
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19
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Infectious diarrhoea in calves
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20
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21
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Pathogenesis of diarrhoea in calves
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22
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Risk factors of neonates
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23
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Diagnosis of calf diarrhoea
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24
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Therapy for calf diarrhoea
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Scouring calves
Hospital pens- two
3 calves, 50 kg, want to suckle, standing
other pen 2 calves, lying down, one in sternal recumbency and the other is comatose in lateral recumbency
What will you ask? What aspects of the clinical exam are important? what options for treating calves? How will you decide what treatment method to choose?
28
Determining percent dehydrated in calves
29
Oral rehydration therapy indications
30
Faecal consistency/ calf demeanour
31
Homemade ORS
32
How many feeds/ weather?
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Parenteral rehydration therapy indications
34
Principles of fluid therapy
35
Parenteral rehydration therapy hypertonic v. isotonic fluids
Cattle Semester 2
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