Nitrate Poisoning in Ruminants

Plant Poisoning of Small Ruminants

Many factors determine whether animals are poisoned by plants including the quantity and rate of the plant eaten; the stage of growth of the plant; the growing conditions of the plant; and whether or not the plants have been fertilized or treated with herbicides. The species of the animal, age, sex and general body condition of the animal also determine the outcome of plant poisoning. Lastly th...

Methaemoglobinaemia as a result of sodium nitrate poisoning.

Copper poisoning in the Kruger National Park: field investigation in wild ruminants.

Chronic copper poisoning was investigated in ruminants within the Phalaborwa area of the Kruger National Park (KNP). Exposure of ruminants to environmental copper pollution resulting form copper smelting operations of a mine in the area was examined by comparing impala faecal copper concentrations in dung heaps and tissue (liver, lung and kidney) copper concentrations of organs collected from i...

The Potential of Feeding Nitrate to Reduce Enteric Methane Production in Ruminants

Accidental poisoning of ruminants with the fertilizer, urea in Ibadan, Nigeria.

A report of accidental poisoning of goats and cattle with the fertilizer, urea (46% Nitrogen) is made. All the fifteen goats IlJ1d five cattle involved in the intoxication eventually died. The clinical symptoms and pathological lesions were similar in both goats and cattle. There was a significant elevation of the blood urea nitrogen values in both cattle and goats; average for cattle being 39m...