What is the reason for cattle eating soil and how to treat it?

This may be an involuntary reflex behavior in cattle. That is, after normal feeding, all foreign bodies that can be touched around the pen are inadvertently licked, and there are no pathological manifestations and do not affect the fattening of cattle. However, if it is caused by incomplete nutrition or unreasonable combination in the diet, the addition of additives is not standard, or even poor feeding management conditions, this kind of licking and eating foreign bodies should be regarded as a pathological phenomenon, that is, the commonly known pica.

If left untreated for a long time, it can cause symptoms such as indigestion, anorexia, gradual weight loss, and anemia.

This phenomenon of picnia can occur all year round. If it does not affect the health of the cattle, there is no need to delve into the cause. However, if it affects the growth and development of cattle, it is a pathological phenomenon and the cause must be found.

First of all, check whether the feed is full-price material and whether it is produced by regular manufacturers. Because the deficiency of certain proteins in the diet, especially certain essential amino acids and vitamins, can affect the absorption of various nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. At the same time, pay attention to whether the amount of additives is appropriate.

Too much can cause fattening cattle poisoning, too little can cause a deficiency of trace elements in the body. Of course, it is not excluded that certain chronic diseases (such as rickets, osteomalacia, forestomach diseases, etc.) or in vitro and extracorporeal parasitic diseases (such as roundworms, coccidia, cystias, cattle lice, etc.) can cause the disease. In addition, improper feeding management (such as long-term lack of drinking water or too large proportion of concentrate in the diet, etc.) or poor environmental conditions (too small enclosure, poor ventilation and lighting, etc.) can also cause this disease.

The treatment of fattening cattle eating soil should be treated differently in different situations. If it is a cow's conditioned reflex behavior, it can be left untreated, or it can be corrected with a cage. If it is a pathological change, it should be comprehensively analyzed from many aspects such as feeding management, feed formula, environmental conditions, etc., to find out the best and the right symptoms.

For example, feed formulations can be adjusted according to the different nutritional needs of fattening cattle at different stages of growth. It is best to feed more green feed in spring, summer and autumn, and supplement vitamin-rich feed such as grain sprouts, malt and yeast in winter. At the same time, we should further strengthen the management of feeding, do a good job in environmental sanitation inside and outside the enclosure, and regularly deworm and do a good job in epidemic prevention.

For secondary diseases such as indigestion, it is necessary to first adjust the environment in the gastrointestinal tract, and drugs can be selected according to the actual local situation. For example, yeast tablets that regulate the balance of microorganisms in the rumen, artificial salts that promote excretion, and stomach medicines (gentian, malt powder, etc.) can all be used.

Cattle will lick the mineral soil behavior, generally caused by the lack of mineral elements, generally a very small amount of licking, excessive licking of cattle may be sick, to the cattle to supplement some trace elements.

Cattle eat soil is to supplement a certain nutrient or increase minerals, you can find a veterinarian** or laboratory to see.

Cattle eat soil due to the lack of vitamin elements and minerals in the cattle's body. Mineral trace elements such as calcium and phosphorus should be added to the feed, such as quick supplement. Eighteen Super Supplements. Nutritious bricks let it eat.

Cattle eat soil because cattle lack trace elements or cattle have parasites, check it specifically, symptomatic**.

1. Clinical symptoms: the initial body temperature of the sick cattle rises to 40 42, showing residual fever, rapid pulse and breathing, mental depression, teeth grinding, salivation, swollen lymph nodes on the body surface, like to lie down, appetite is good and bad, like to eat dry matter such as: firewood, dry corn stalks, etc.

I hate the grass, eat the soil when I see it, and especially love to eat the loess and sand of the ridge. Rumination is slow, constipation alternates with diarrhea, and some discharge a black-brown foul-smelling stool with mucous stools. Sick cattle are rapidly emaciated, anemia, yellow staining of the conjunctiva, earthy yellow in the mouth, tongue and nasal scope, red in urination, and edema under the jaw and chest in severe cases, with blood in the feces until they are weakened and die.

Second, the first plan.

1. Mild patients are injected intramuscularly with 4 mg of blood worm net per kilogram of body weight or 4 mg per kilogram of body weight with yellow pigment intravenously. Re-inject every 7 10 days.

2. For severe cases, take 500 1000 ml of sodium chloride, 500 1000 ml of 5% glucose, 10 grams of V C3, 5 30 ml of Anagya, 5 15 grams of ceftiofur sodium, and 20 100 ml of 50% glucose for one-time intravenous infusion. Once a day, for three days.

3. Precautionary measures Deworming once a year in spring and autumn. Avermectin is administered in milliliters of body weight, and ivermectin is injected subcutaneously in milliliters of body weight in pregnant animals. The vaccine was injected intramuscularly with 1 ml of bovine Taylor pyroworm jelly cell seedlings for an immunization period of one year.

Ingestion of a foreign body can cause damage to the digestive system. Usually, I don't pay attention to whether there are other foreign substances in the feed, and I just feed the cattle casually. Forage is also not inspected before feeding. And suspected of heterophilia in cattle, it is recommended to increase trace elements in the diet.

It is estimated that the mineral intake is insufficient.

Various minerals are also required for the proper growth of cattle. Wild cows eat all kinds of plants, graze against the ground, and eat the soil that sticks to the grass. The water you drink is river water or pond water, which is also mixed with sediment, so you don't need to supplement with minerals.

But domestic cattle are different. Domestic cattle or dairy farms have cleaner feed, clean water to drink, and not enough minerals to provide for the growth of cattle. At this time, in order to replenish the lack of minerals in the body, the cow will lick the soil to replenish the minerals.

This condition is not a disease and does not need to be a**. There is a special thing for cattle to supplement minerals on the market, called "cattle and sheep licking salt", which is a kind of salt as a carrier, adding calcium, phosphorus, iodine, copper, zinc, manganese, iron, selenium and other macro trace elements of salt pressed into a block, for cattle to raise and lick food, this licking brick meets the needs of cattle and sheep, and is easy to be absorbed by cattle and sheep.

Go to your local agricultural materials ** point to ask, or search on the Internet, buy a little for cattle to lick and eat, you can do it. Lick the block.

1: If it is a house-fed cattle, it is pica caused by a single lack of vitamins and minerals in the feed.

2: If it is grazing cattle, it is the lack of a certain mineral in the area that causes pica.

Pay more attention to the combination of nutrients, you can buy some bricks or something to supplement the deficiency or imbalance of trace elements.

Cattle eating soil is a very complex syndrome of multiple diseases with metabolic disorders and abnormal sense of taste. It is mostly caused by the lack of mineral elements in the animal body, such as lack of calcium, sodium, iron, cobalt, sulfur, etc. In addition, overcrowding, poor ventilation and lighting, lack of protein, especially certain essential amino acids and vitamins, imbalance between various nutrients, insufficient drinking water or some parasitic diseases are also predisposing factors.

If there is a lack of mineral elements in the body, you can buy some "licking bricks" to supplement the deficiency or imbalance of trace elements.

If you see a cow eating dirt, don't be afraid, it's actually caused by a lack of essential minerals in the cow's body. But cows licking and eating dirt are very harmful to the health of cows. Soil enters the stomach of cattle, affecting the digestion and absorption of cattle, which can lead to anterior stomach relaxation and diarrhea.

If you eat metal objects such as iron nails with soil, it can cause traumatic reticulitis gastritis and pericarditis. In addition, the soil contains various germs that make cattle susceptible to diseases.

To this end, it is necessary to pay attention to feeding management, so that green, coarse and concentrated feed are reasonably matched, and salt and bone meal are fed in an appropriate amount.

In many small beef cattle farms, it is common to find beef calves eating soil, which is caused by a lack of calcium, phosphorus or other trace elements. Beef calves have a high demand for trace elements during the growth phase, and if they are not satisfied, they will lick from the soil or from the walls.

This is very harmful to the health of beef calves. The soil and walls contain a large number of pathogenic microorganisms, which can enter the digestive tract of beef calves through licking and feeding, which can cause bacterial enteritis and other diseases in beef calves.

Therefore, we need to prevent beef calves from eating dirt or licking walls. We must drive away in time after we see it, of course, this method is not a cure. If we want to completely ** this disease, we need to supplement the beef calves with trace elements.

We can add a special premix for beef cattle to the beef cattle feed, and hang licking bricks in the barn for the beef calves to lick and eat. After a period of supplementation, beef calves will not lack trace elements, and naturally there will be no phenomenon of eating soil.

This is normal. Many animals have these properties. But mainly herbivores. Eat soil to replenish trace elements in the body.

Calves in general. Lamb. Eating soil is caused by insects in the body. It's time to deworm.

It's pica. The causes of pica are complex, the general cause is the lack of mineral vitamins, especially the lack of salt, sulfur, amino acids, etc., the second is the gastrointestinal tract parasites, and then it is caused by habits, hunger and other conditions.

2.Reasons for dairy cows to eat soil: (1) deficiency of vitamins, trace elements and minerals; (2) salt deficiency; (3) insufficient dry matter intake; (4) For the new bedding soil, the cow likes to eat.

What should I do if a cow eats wool and soil, see what the veterinarian says, it sounds very reasonable!

There are many reasons why cattle eat soil, and it is necessary to find out the reasons for the slag and rot, such as leakage and symptomatic treatment. If the cow is malnourished and lacks the nutrients it needs, you can add multi-dimensional Taiyan Bird Bao to the cow mix or drinking water to supplement the nutrients that the cattle need.

Cow eating soil is a metabolic disorder, abnormal taste syndrome, mainly caused by insufficient mineral elements in the body, such as lack of calcium, sodium, iron, cobalt, sulfur, etc. In the process of cattle breeding, if there is no reasonable provision of feed and drinking water, and the amount of feeding is not properly restricted, it will directly cause abnormal function of the cow's digestive system. When a cow has pica, it is important to check whether it has swallowed a metallic substance, and a metal detector can be used to close the rumen of the cow to detect whether there is a metallic foreign body inside.

1. What's going on with cows eating soil?

1. Cows generally suffer from a metabolic disorder and abnormal taste syndrome, which is mainly caused by the lack of mineral elements in the body, such as lack of calcium, sodium, iron, cobalt, sulfur, etc. In addition to the deficiency of trace elements, the deficiency of certain essential amino acids and vitamins, the imbalance between various nutrients, insufficient drinking water or certain parasitic diseases can also cause cattle to eat soil.

2. In the process of breeding cattle, if there is no reasonable feeding and drinking water, and there is no proper restriction on the amount of feeding, it will lead to abnormal function of the cattle's digestive system. In particular, acid-base imbalance in the stomach or diarrhea will lead to the loss of a large amount of sodium in the body, resulting in pica. If the layout of the cattle farm infrastructure is not reasonable, the feeding environment, poor ventilation in the house and contains a large number of harmful gases, lack of light, and harmful noise, etc., will lead to the imbalance of the cattle digestive system and the appearance of pica.

3. When the cow has pica, it must be checked whether it has swallowed metal substances, and a metal detector can be used close to the rumen of the cow, so that it can detect whether there are metal foreign bodies inside. For example, if you use a compass close to the rumen of a cow, if the direction of the compass is significantly offset, it is likely that there is a metal foreign body inside.

Second, how do cows eat soil

1. You can use a special "licking brick"**, which is a substance developed according to the different nutritional needs of cattle and sheep. It is nutritious, hard and not easy to deliquescent, and has a certain effect on preventing pica (biting, eating soil, licking urine, etc.).

2. We must strengthen feeding management and give full price feed, especially the content and proportion of protein, vitamins and minerals.

3. Provide sufficient drinking water, keep the ventilation and lighting in the house reasonable, clean the environment well, regularly remove internal and external parasites, and reduce the stress response of cattle.

4. If there is a lack of drugs, you can give cobalt chloride to cattle, 20mg-40mg each time, once a day. In winter and spring, we must feed more grass and green hay, so that it can be supplemented with grain sprouts, malt, yeast and other high-vitamin feed, and ensure the effective supply of tryptophan in the diet, which has a good effect on preventing this disease.