Animal Health & Welfare
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What are ways to reduce animal stress?
• Feeding Systems • Working Systems • Living Environments • Health enhancements (vaccinations)
Do animals work efficiently under undesirable conditions?
no
Necropsy
Cause of death
Disease
State other than complete wellness
What can cause diseases?
Virus, Bacteria, Internal, External Parasites, Broken Bones, Biochemical Problems
Clinical Signs
Outward appearance or symptom that is not normal
Pathology
Study of essential nature of diseases
Etiology
Cause of disease or the study of the cause of disease
Cortisol
Decrease Stress
What three factors enhance animals resistance to environmental or man made pathogens?
• Vaccinations • Facilities • Genetics
HYPP (Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis)
Muscles get stiff
Immune System
Bodies ability to prevent sickness (skin, mucous membranes, linking of GI tract, antibody production)
Antibodies
Protein molecules able to recognize harmful organisms and prevent them from harming the body.
Passive Immunity
Passed from mother to offspring during gestation or from colostrum. (short term protection from organisms that the dam was exposed to)
Active Immunity
Antibodies are produced by the animal from exposure to an organism or vaccination
Clostridal Organism
C&D & tetanus (anaerobic condition)
Polioencephalomalacia
In ruminants (thiamin deficiency)
What factors help prevention?
Management, Nutrition, Genetics, Isolation/Quarantine, Animal Identification, Identify Sick Animals
Nutrition
Balanced Rations (2:1)
What are the water requirements?
Fresh, clean (no contaminants)
Reduce metabolic problems
Milk fever, urinary calculi, ketosis, grass tetany, nitrate poisonings, colic, founder
Genetics
Eliminate animals with problems
Cattle
Curly Calf Syndrome (Angus)
Swine
P.S.S. Porcine Stress Syndrome