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28 Cards in this Set
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What is down cow syndrome? |
cow has severe muscle damage due to milk fever |
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What is a prolapsed uterus? |
uterus everts through vagina |
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What is a retained placenta? |
failure to pass placenta following calving |
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When does ketosis occur? |
when energy for maintenance and milk production demands are higher than what the cow can consume |
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When are ketones generated? |
when fat is broken down in the TCA cycle |
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What do ketones cause in the cow? |
mildly toxic and cause a depressed appetite and depression |
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What are the signs of ketosis? |
decreased appetite, lethargic and depressed, hypomotile rumen, smell ketones |
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How is ketosis diagnosed? |
ketouria, hypoglycemia |
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What is primary ketosis? |
purely dietary |
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What is secondary ketosis? |
there is a primary disease causing cow not to eat |
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What is nervous ketosis? |
hyperexcitable, pica |
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What is the treatment for ketosis? |
glucose IV, propylene glycol, steroids |
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How do you prevent ketosis? |
avoid negative energy balance, start in dry period, good feeding management |
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What happens with a displaced abomasum? |
abomasum fills with gas and moves from ventral abdominal floor to the left or right side of the animal |
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What are the signs of a displaced abomasum? |
anorexia, agalctia, small amounts of soft manure, slight ketouria, characteristic ping during percussion of abdomen |
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Which is more severe, LDA or RDA? |
RDA, can turn into a torsion |
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What is external fixation? |
toggle abomasum in place |
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What is an abomasopexy? |
empty abomasum of gas, reposition and suture it in place to the ventral abdomen |
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What is an omentopexy? |
relive gas in abomasum and suture omentum to hold abomasum in place |
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How is displaced abomasum prevented? |
diet management, exercise |
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What is hardware disease? |
inflammation of reticulum due to ingestion of sharp, metallic foreign body |
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How is hardware disease treated? |
magnet, antibiotics, rumenotomy |
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What is pericarditis? |
foreign body penetrates through diaphragm and innoculates pericardium |
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What are the signs of pericarditis? |
muffled heart sounds, washing machine murmur, jugular pulse |
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what happens to a calf during the enteric form of diarrhea? |
profuse white or watery diarrhea, calf weak and dehydrated |
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What happens during septicemic form of diarrhea? |
per acute, weak dehydrated animal |
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what does the ROTA virus cause? |
mild depression, anorexic, mild fever, profuse liquid diarrhea |
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What does the corona virus cause? |
similar to ROTA virus, but persistent |
