Veterinary: Trace Element Deficiencies and Toxicities
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- Created on: 30-09-22 11:30
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- Trace Element Deficiencies and Toxicities
- Copper
- Deficiency
- Sheep
- Poor growth and anaemia
- Worm susceptibility
- Swollen, painful epiphyses
- Swayback ascending paralysis
- Poor wool crimp due to failure of disulphide bonds
- Cows
- Spectacles as cannot produce melanin
- Swollen, painful epiphyses and fractures
- Anaemia and poor growth
- Impaired cycling and fertility from LH surge failure
- Watery diarrhoea/ peat scours
- Impaired immune system so susceptible to worms
- Sheep
- Toxicity
- Acute
- Watery blue-green diarrhoea with irritation/ ulceration of GIT
- Chronic
- Haemolytic crisis
- Watery blood
- Watery blood
- Port wine urine
- Haemolytic crisis
- Haemolytic crisis
- Hepatic necrosis
- Gun metal kidneys
- Tan/orange liver
- Tachycardia
- Haemolytic crisis
- Acute
- Deficiency
- Iodine
- Deficiency
- Myxoedema
- Poor growth rates
- Poor coat quality
- Poor fertility and early embryonic loss
- Poor neonatal vigor and susceptible to cold
- Toxicity
- Ocular and nasal discharge
- Bronchopneumonia
- Hair loss
- Dermatitis
- Paradoxical hypothyroidism
- Coughing
- Decreased neonatal antibody absorption!
- Deficiency
- Zinc
- Swollen hocks, bent backs, bowed legs
- Testicular dysfunction
- Parakeratosis and hair loss
- Impaired immune function
- Poor quality hoof horn
- Selenium
- Deficiency
- Sheep
- White muscle disease
- Poor neonatal vigor, high stillbirths, neonatal losses
- High barren rates and early embryonic death
- Poor growth rates
- Cows
- Increased mastitis risk
- Poor neonatal vigor
- Poor growth rates
- White muscle disease
- Retained foetal membranes
- Sheep
- Toxicity
- Acute
- Pulmonary oedema
- Congestive heart failure
- Respiratory distress
- Salivation
- Chronic
- Sloughing sore hooves
- Anaemic
- Rough, brittle coat
- Lameness due to joint degeneration
- Dull
- Acute
- Deficiency
- Cobalt
- Toxicity not really a thing as high toxic threshold!
- Deficiency
- Synergistic negative impact of lamb growth rates with worm burdens
- Ovine white liver disease
- High stillbirths, low neonatal vigor, decreased lamb numbers
- Anaemia
- Anorexia
- Lacrimation
- Low BCS, poor growth rate
- Infertility
- Manganese
- Deficiency
- Contracted tendons in neonates
- Deficiency
- Copper
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