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Blackleg | Hemorrhagic Septicemia | Brucellosis | Keratoconjunctivitis | Foot Rot | Cancer Eye | Bloat | Tuberculosis | Bovine Papillomatosis | Urinary Calculi
Blackleg
- Common Name: N/A
- Cause: Clostridium Chauvoci
- Treatment: Penicillin and sulfa drugs
- Type of Cattle Affected: Cattle from 4 months to 2 years
- Vaccine: 7-way vaccine
- Symptoms: Swelling of muscles, especially legs, muscular depression
Hemorrhagic Septicemia
- Common Name: Shipping fever
- Cause: stress, virus, infection, bacteria
- Treatment: Sulfonamides, antibiotics, antiserums, Liquamycin 200, Tylan 200
- Type of Cattle Affected: young calves
- Vaccine: pasturella
- Symptoms: prostration, dropping ears, watery eyes, rapid breathing, high temperature with chills
Brucellosis
- Common Name: Bangs disease
- Cause: bacteria (Brucella abortus)
- Treatment: None
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: Strain 19
- Symptoms: infertility, retained placentas, abortion after 4 months
Keratoconjunctivitis
- Common Name: pink eye
- Cause: Moraxella bovis
- Treatment: sulfonamides, antibiotics, nitrofurons
- Type of Cattle Affected: most common in white faced cattle
- Vaccine: vaccines containing pink eye bacteria
- Symptoms: swollen eyelid, center of cornea appears white
Foot Rot
- Common Name: Sore foot
- Cause: bacteria, occurs when hooves do not dry out
- Treatment: moving to dry areas, use of bluestone solution
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: N/A
- Symptoms: Lameness, swelling of the foot, spreading of the toes
Cancer Eye
- Common Name: N/A
- Cause: N/A
- Treatment: Must be removed
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: N/A
- Symptoms: Tumor of the eye
Bloat
- Common Name: N/A
- Cause: excessive gas in rumen, high grain diet
- Treatment: drench with mineral oil to start eructation, stomach tube or puncturing rumen (trocar)
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: N/A
- Symptoms: Left side of abdomen will balloon up
Tuberculosis
- Common Name: TB
- Cause: Bacteria Mycobacterium
- Treatment: N/A
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: N/A
- Symptoms: internal lesions
Bovine Papillomatosis
- Common Name: Warts
- Cause: Virus
- Treatment: Toothpaste, wart pinching, twisting close to base
- Type of Cattle Affected: N/A
- Vaccine: Vaccines
- Symptoms: N/A
Urinary Calculi
- Common Name: N/A
- Cause: improper calcium and phosphorous ratio, and genetics
- Treatment: surgery
- Type of Cattle Affected: primarily in male cattle
- Vaccine: N/A
- Symptoms: restlessness, unsuccessful attempts to urinate, urine dribbles slowly from sheath, loss of appetite