Adjustment of feeding as a way to prevent fodder poisoning in cattle

The publication notes that feeding conditions can contribute to healing or, on the contrary, cause fodder poisoning and specific diseases, weakening of the body's immunity against pathogens of various diseases. The specific diseases caused by the unsatisfactory condition and properties of feed include diseases of insufficient nutrition, which are caused by insufficient supply of vital nutrients to animals and are often accompanied by metabolic disorders, as well as feed poisoning. In infectious and invasive diseases of animals, nutrition plays the role of a powerful factor that determines the body's resistance. Significant damage to animal husbandry from fodder poisoning is expressed primarily in the death of a fairly large number of animals of various species, as well as in significant losses of production or reduced performance of animals. For the effective fight against poisoning and, in particular, for the prevention of the latter, it is necessary for all animal husbandry specialists to orientate themselves in the sources of fodder poisoning, their clinic and diagnosis, as well as know the possibilities and methods of providing assistance to sick animals. Depending on the place of growth, the same plants are poisonous in some cases, and used as fodder in others. Fluctuations and accumulation of poisonous substances take place in the same plants in different phases of vegetation (before and after flowering), in different parts of plants depending on meteorological conditions and in individual months. Many of these plants have a fairly high nutrient content and can be of considerable forage value. One of the causes of fodder poisoning of animals can be fodder affected by various parasitic and saprophytic fungi. Many types of rust, soot, mold and other fungi are widespread in nature. They affect feed (coarse, concentrated, juicy), which causes their harmful properties. Often, animal poisoning is not caused by poisonous plants contained in hay and grain fodder, or by their seeds, but is caused by their spoilage by molds or other fungi. The following factors should be attributed to the causes of poisoning: lack of feed quality control; grazing animals on fields and pastures where fertilizers are used; careless attitude towards animals. In order to reduce the damage caused to cattle by fodder poisoning, it is necessary to carry out appropriate preventive measures, and in case of animal diseases related to poisoning, to provide them with qualified assistance in a timely manner, which is possible only with the ability to recognize poisoning and establish the causes that caused it.