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15/10/2024

Daktari KoechLIVER FLUKE LIFE CYCLE

10/10/2024

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Daktari Koech

04/10/2024

THE FIVE FREEDOM OF ANIMAL WELFARE

1. Freedom from hunger or thirst: Always provide proper food and clean water.
2. Freedom from discomfort: They should always have access to shelter and a comfortable resting area.
3. Freedom from pain, injury, or disease: Regular health care, disease prevention, and proper medical treatment and relief from pain.
4. Freedom to express normal behavior: Providing appropriate space, facilities, and social interaction according to the animal’s natural behaviors.
5. Freedom from fear and distress: Providing the animals with the right conditions to avoid mental and physical suffering

28/09/2024

World Rabies day..... let's all come together and prioritize on Rabies vaccination on our pets.
Contact KOECH Vet. Services Daktari Koech for Rabies Vaccination

14/07/2024

Acetonaemia (Ketosis)

●Cause
Ketosis is a metabolic disorder that occurs in cattle when energy demands (e.g. high milk production) exceed energy intake and result in a negative energy balance. Ketotic cows often have low blood glucose (blood sugar) concentrations.

When large amounts of body fat are utilised as an energy source to support production, fat is sometimes mobilised faster than the liver can properly metabolise it. If this situation occurs, ketone production exceeds ketone utilisation by the cow, and ketosis results.

In the beef cow, this is most likely to occur in late pregnancy when the cow's appetite is at its lowest and the energy requirement of the growing calf near its peak.

In the dairy cow, the mismatch between input and output usually occurs in the first few weeks of lactation, because the cow is not able to eat enough to match the energy lost in the milk.

● Symptoms
Reduced milk yield
Weight loss
Reduced appetite
Dull coat
Acetone (pear drop) smell of breath/ or milk
Fever
Some develop nervous signs including excess salivation, licking, agression etc.
For every cow with clinical signs there are probably a number of others with sub-clinical signs.
●Treatment
Consult veterinary personnel

●Prevention
It is important to prevent ketosis from occurring, rather than treating cases as they appear.

Prevention depends on adequate feeding and management practices.

In times of feed deficiency because of drought or other reasons, the provision of supplementary feed with adequate amounts of carbohydrate is essential. The best feeds tend to be good quality hay, silage, or cereal grain.

The body condition of the dairy cow is important at calving. Cows should be on a rising plane of nutrition up to calving with the aim to calve in good condition.

After calving, the cow has the potential to reach maximum efficiency in milk production, but feed requirements for high production are often greater than the voluntary intake of pasture can provide.

20/06/2024

Do you understand ketosis? Stay tuned

25/12/2023

May the Lord bring light and love into your house this Christmas and into the New Year. Koech Veterinary Services

25/11/2023

Hygiene is the most critical measure to mastitis at bay. Dairy cattle Acute Coliform Mastitis

03/10/2023

Customer service week

02/09/2023

Healthy animals healthy nation

26/11/2022

Hay

28/09/2022

Let's vaccinate against Rabies:
Theme: ONE HEALTH, ZERO DEATHS

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