Diarrhea in baby alpaca
The pup mortality in the hood of calving is a serious problem in alpaca breeding, hence the constant concern dwe producers find alternatives but simple techniques aplicaion.
A confunsion on the type of disease being treated, and how they can be controlled, because CIRAS die a week or a month, and other times they die several offspring simultaneously, which confuses the breeder.
Those who produce diarrhea
The bacteria or "germs" and parasites that cause diarrhea are:
- Welchie Clostridium (bacteria) causes enterotoxemia.
- Escherichia coli (bacteria) causes diarrhea atypical
- Coccidia (parasite) that cause coccidiosis.
These can only verese under the microscope.
Symptoms of the disease
1. When it comes to the most notorious enterotoxemia symptoms are:
- Calves are decayed, and cast away from his mother.
- Present the swollen belly and bid but not defecate
- Get plenty of water having fever.
- However, other die without showing any symptoms
- The disease generally occurs in wet years.
Externally, the belly is very swollen, as if about to burst. When opened, the intestines tend to escape due to the strong pressure of the gas contained in them, and the smell is perceived unpleasant characteristic.
- Persistent diarrhea with stools whitish, yellowish or greenish white, resulting in the cira puerda weight quickly.
Diarrhea may persist for several days (2-5 days), especially when they are kept in pens dirty and wet.
- Finally the CIRAS is weak, listless, and die cast remain.
- At necropsy, the most striking is the poor animal's meat condidiocn and intestinal content is fluid without the presence of gases.
3. When it comes coccidiosis presenting symptoms Calves are:
- Decay and lack of appetite
- General weakness and weight loss
- They have dark and persistent diarrhea
- Affects the offspring but are in good condition
- At necropsy is the thin intesitno bleeding.
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