Veterinary Science & Technology

Petra Wolf

Publications

• Case Report
  Case Report: Complex Plant Poisoning in Heavily Pregnant Heifers in Germany
  Author(s): Sabine Aboling, Sabine Rottmann, Petra Wolf, Doris Jahn- Falk and Josef KamphuesSabine Aboling, Sabine Rottmann, Petra Wolf, Doris Jahn- Falk and Josef Kamphues
  
  On a pasture five heavily pregnant heifers out of 15 animals in total developed severe apathy, haemorhagic enteritis as well as photodermatosis both at the mouth and vulva (mortality rate 80%). The vegetation of the 3-hectare pasture was recorded at species level. Both a botanical investigation of 500 g rumen content of one heifer and a quantitative analysis of cyanides in the blood of three animals were carried out. The sward consisted of fodder plants and reed sweet grass (Glyceria maxima), the latter a nutritious species containing cyanogenic glycosides. The blood samples contained up to 1.56 mg cyanide/l serum. Therefore, the heifers had eaten about 7 kg reed sweet grass, slightly less than the lethal amount. Marsh horsetail (Equisetum palustre) growing in between, was unintentionally ingested and caused haemorhagic enteritis. As a possible post-ingest.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7579.1000178

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