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
      • Toxicity
        • Acute
          • Watery blue-green diarrhoea with irritation/ ulceration of GIT
        • Chronic
          • Haemolytic crisis
            • Watery blood
          • Watery blood
          • Port wine urine
            • Haemolytic crisis
            • Hepatic necrosis
            • Gun metal kidneys
            • Tan/orange liver
            • Tachycardia
      • 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!
      • 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
        • Toxicity
          • Acute
            • Pulmonary oedema
            • Congestive heart failure
            • Respiratory distress
            • Salivation
          • Chronic
            • Sloughing sore hooves
            • Anaemic
            • Rough, brittle coat
            • Lameness due to joint degeneration
            • Dull
      • 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

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