ill-thrift

There are many reasons for ill-thrift including worms.

These may be a cause of scouring, dags and other symptoms of ill-thrift in stock.

The PI cattle that do survive ill-thrift are susceptible to mucosal disease.

For example, low cobalt prevents microbial cell division in the rumen - resulting in ill-thrift.

The feed becomes unpalatable, and if stock are forced to eat it they may abort, or develop diarrhoea or ill-thrift.

Selenium deficiency may lead to infertility in ewes and ill-thrift of sheep and cattle.

Use a feacal egg count (FEC) to identify if intestinal worms are the cause of ill-thrift.

Efficacy of a single dose of oral antibiotic given within 2 hours of birth in preventing watery mouth disease and ill-thrift in colostrum-deficient lambs.

In the spring of 2000, Nick contacted Dr Malcolm Smeal, from Southern Beef Advisory, because they were having trouble with ill-thrift.

'so I had my BAgrSc degree and I was seconded to this peculiar job at Lincoln, investigating ill-thrift in hoggets.

That means that deer farmers should get the vet to take a brain sample from any adult deer which develop ill-thrift and/or pneumonia and which don't respond to treatment.

Deficiency of trace minerals affect many metabolic processes and so may be manifested by different symptoms, such as poor growth and appetite, reproductive failures, impaired immune responses, and general ill-thrift.

Obvious ill-thrift that resembles intestinal parasite infestation, and some times catastrophic death rates can occur in sheep and cattle when temperature humidity is high and they consume the infected pasture.

The results demonstrate the possible major role of trichostrongyle infestation in the hogget ill-thrift problem, and provide evidence of greater economic loss in meat and wool production than has previously been considered.