Dr. Livestock DVM

06/08/2025

SCOURS OR DIARRHOEA:

Symptoms;
Diarrhoea can be the symptom of a disease.

There are many different causes of scours
and each one can cause a different kind of runny stomach.
They can include:
- Smooth, yellow diarrhoea
- Smooth, white diarrhoea

- Whitish diarrhoea with lumps of thin skin in it.
- Red or brown diarrhoea, which may mean blood in it.
- Scours can be caused by a change in food source or diet.

PREVENTION:

Regular treatment for worms will prevent scours caused by worms.
Where scours are caused by nutritional changes, feeding some sort of nutritional supplement in winter will help with prevention.

TREATMENT:

A good general treatment is a mix of one spoon salt, 8 spoons sugar in one litre of clean, warm
water. For young animals that have not been weaned, feed this mixture twice a day instead
of milk (but not for more than three days).

Only when there is blood in the diarrhoea, do you inject with a long acting anti-biotic or give
a dose of terramycin powder mixed with water.

Hi-Tet 200 LA dosage:

Intramuscular injection 1ml/10kg livemass. Repeat after 3 days if necessary.

Terramycin powder dosage:

Mix with water and give as a drink 1 level teaspoon powder/7kg livemass.
Repeat daily for 3 to 5 days.

Immodium tablets for 3-5 days: half a tablet per day.

Dr. Livestock DVM

06/08/2025

Good Morning ☀

Guess the State in Nigeria 😂

05/08/2025

Grow a herd of 100 in 2yrs & make 1M!
Goats produce twice/1yr with 70% chance of twins, so 10 goats can bear 10-15 kids in 5 months and kids can total 30 in 1yr, meaning in 2yrs, with GOOD HUSBANDRY, you can have 70 kids with 10-20 Lot1 female kids mature enough to also bear kids.

Dr. Livestock DVM

05/08/2025

Nobody can fix Nigeria in 4years.
It is sad that I have to say something this basic.

The level of rot, corruption and moral destruction that pervasively ravages the entire country from top to bottom is not something that can be fixed in four years.

You can start the process.
But you cannot fix the problem in 4years.

05/08/2025

Heat or oestrus= is the period when the female will
accept the male and mate. There are signs which
mark oestrus in all ruminants.

•Recognising when
the female is on heat means you will know when to
put her with the male or use artificial insemination.

The female reproductive system consists of two
ovaries and a womb.
Every so often the ovaries produce very small eggs
(ova).
The time when this happens is called heat or
oestrus.
Cattle and buffalo regularly come into heat all year
round.
Most sheep and goats come into heat at a
particular time of the year (breeding season).

•Knowing when an animal is in Heat.

If you know when an animal is in heat you can
introduce her to a chosen male for mating or you
can arrange for her to be artificially inseminated if
the service is available.
You will also be able to identify animals which do
not go in heat.
The best time to look for signs that the female is in
heat is early morning or in the evening.
Take care not to disturb the animals but just watch
the animals for the signs.

Signs Of Heat In Free Animals (At Pasture):

•Most females in heat will allow other animals to
mount them.

•Cows in heat will mount one another, from the rear
or from the front. However, the cow on top may not
be on heat.

•The v***a becomes swollen and the area around the
tail becomes wet and dirty.

•If cows sniff each other’s' v***a and urine they may
both come into heat.

•Cows can be coming into heat if they stand resting
the chin on the back of another or are seen to lick
or gently butt each other.

•Restlessness and calling loudly can also mean the
female is coming into heat. Goats in particular
become very noisy.

When do animals come into Heat for the first time?
Animals come into heat when they reach puberty.
This occurs at different ages in the different
ruminants:
Well-fed cows and buffalo come into first heat at 10
- 20 months of age.

How long does Heat last?

The duration of heat is very short.
In cows and buffalo, it lasts for less than a day.
In goat’s heat lasts for 1 - 3 days.
In sheep heat lasts for 1 - 2 days.
A healthy animal which was not mounted by a male
or given artificial insemination will come back into
heat.

Dr. Livestock DVM

05/08/2025

HOW TO PREPARE MORINGA LEAVES FOR YOUR POULTRY AND LIVESTOCK

1. Harvest and extract fresh moringa leaves from the tree.

2. Place them under shade to air dry them and also avoid sun drying them.

3. Once the leaves are dry, grind them into a fine powder.

4. Mix the moringa powder with the poultry feed or add it to their drinking water.

5. The recommended level of moringa poweder in poultry feed and livestock feed is 10% and avoids exceeding this level, as higher amounts may negatively affect animal health and performance.

Among the positive effects of Moringa leaves on poultry diets it can be highlighted: Antimicrobial, anticoccidial, and antioxidant effects.

Moringa leaf is a great leaf for both humans and animals.

Dr. Livestock DVM

05/08/2025

If you find someone smarter than you, don't compete just learn

05/08/2025

A Guide On Goat🐐 Pregnancy.

Gestation length in goats is 145–155 days
(average 150 days) and can be affected by
breed, litter weight, environment, and parity.
Generally, first-kidding does have one or two
kids, and in subsequent kiddings, triplets and
quadruplets are not uncommon.

What does a pregnant goat need?

Feeding should consist of medium quality
hay, good pasture, and free choice goat
mineral – they don't need grain at this stage if
they're not being milked. Since we were
milking, ours got grain twice daily but we
slowly decreased this to a very small portion
once daily as we dried them off (quit
milking).

What do goats need when pregnant?

A ration can be balanced using
Bermuda grass hay and 20 percent
range cubes to meet the requirements
by feeding 1.5 pounds of range cubes
and 3.0 pounds of Bermuda grass hay.
This illustrates the high level of
nutrition that is needed, especially in
the last three weeks of pregnancy.

How do you take care of a pregnant
goat?

Care of pregnant goat

1 Keep pregnant animals
separated from others.

2 Provide adequate nutrition,
easily digestible and laxative
diet.

3 Do not allow them to fight with
each other.

4 Do not allow them to mix with
recently aborted animals.

What do you give a goat before kidding?

Giving each doe a CDT (2 cc) & BoSe
(2 cc) shot at 4 weeks prior to kidding,
and deworming (to combat the buildup
of internal parasites that usually occurs
just prior to kidding) them when they
move into their individual stalls a week
before their expected freshening date.

How can you tell a goat is pregnant?

1 Appetite goes up, milk
production goes down. The
appetite of a pregnant doe
gradually increases.
2 The doe's belly tightens.
3 The doe's personality changes.

4 The buck's personality
changes.
5 The doe's barrel swells.
6 The doe's shape changes.
7 The doe snores.

What do you need to help a goat give
birth?

1) Put the doe in her clean stall,
bedded with straw (not hay) and get
your supplies.

2) Sit with the doe and
watch her to judge how things are
going and progressing.

3) Get a feed
bag ready for your garbage bag.
Comfort and emotionally support the
doe in her labor.

Dr. Livestock DVM

05/08/2025

Rabbits eating azolla

Is Azolla good for rabbits?

Azolla can also be fed to sheep, goat, pig and rabbit as feed substitute.

A free floating fresh water fern belonging to the family Azollaceae and order Pteridophyta and can be used as a plant protein source and provitamins for poultry nutrition.

If there anyone selling azolla seed I need it

Dr. Livestock DVM

05/08/2025

I don't discuss politics here but a presidential candidate telling you he will only do 1 term while the constitution permits him to go 2 term is a desperate politician who shouldn't be allowed near sit of power.

3 days ago, Peter Obi posted what looked like a campaign teaser. He promised, again, that if he’s given the coalition’s presidential ticket, he would do only one term. 😂 Let’s be honest, that’s not strategy. That’s anxiety and desperation. Let me explain.

If you’ve studied Nigerian political history, as in really studied it, you’d know that this moment is starting to look familiar. The Obidient movement and Peter Obi’s position today?

It mirrors the Zikist Movement of 1948 and Nnamdi Azikiwe’s great dilemma.

The Zikists were a band of brilliant, angry, radical young Nigerians who wanted immediate freedom from British rule. They believed in protest, sedition, action, not waiting for permission. They called Zik their hero. But when they pushed too far, Zik disowned them.

Why? Because Zik understood what many idealists don’t: Sentiment builds movements, but it takes strategy to win power.

Zik realized the Zikists, with all their fire, had no pathway to real influence.
They would be crushed. He would be sidelined. He took a different road.

Zik went North. He struck an alliance with the Northern People’s Congress (NPC).

The result? He became Nigeria’s first Governor-General, and then the only Igbo man to ever become President (ceremonial, yes but historic nonetheless).

He saw beyond purity. He chose power.

Now here’s the irony. While Zik aligned with the North, Anthony Enahoro, a founding Zikist, crossed over to the Action Group (AG) Awolowo’s camp.

Zik moved on. His movement didn’t.

He refused to be held hostage by the same fire he lit.

And that’s where Obi is today.

Peter Obi is at a crossroads.

His Obidient movement, full of youth, online power, and moral indignation has energized the country.

But like the Zikists, it is also beginning to hold him hostage.

And instead of leading it with clarity, he’s responding with amateur moves.

This “one term” campaign idea? It’s not inspiring. It reeks of desperation. If anyone shld be promising 1term, it’s HE Atiku who’s older, more experienced, and has run the race longer.

Obi, on the other hand, is already behaving like someone trying to bargain his way in Obidients once raged against “old politicians,” yet Obi now shares a table with El-Rufai. Worse? He didn’t carry his team along. Now they’re confused, while he tiptoes around a coalition he should be leading.

05/08/2025

05/08/2025

New Dawn for Cashew Sector in Nigeria 🙌💪

Nigeria has designed a new National Cashew Research Strategy which will scale our cashew output from 400,000 to 700,000 metric tonnes annually.

Nigeria's cashew industry is very important and vibrant, we are the sixth-largest global producer.

The strategy key focus areas are

Enhancing agronomic practices

* Building resilience to climate change

* Expanding local processing capacity

* Strengthening human capital in the sector

We hope the strategy brings out great value for the sector.