Estudo retrospectivo dos atendimentos clínicos realizados pela clínica de ruminantes na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2013 – 2014)

Abstract

Primary livestock activity in Rio Grande do Sul is predominantly based on cattle and sheep. It is estimated that the bovine herd is about 14 million animals and sheep flock is about 4 million animals. Beef and dairy cattle, and the increasing sheep flock have a reasonable production due to veterinarian assistance on several levels and categories on a diversity of productions systems. The Ruminant Clinical Service from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) is the reference center on the central region to assist veterinarians and producers on ruminant production systems. The main objective of this study was to determine which are the most prevalent diseases referred to Ruminant Clinical Services at UFSM from January 2013 to December 2014. Hoof diseases and Seneciosis are the most prevalent in bovines, whereas parasitosis and dystocia are the most prevalent in ovine. This study leads us to conclude that veterinarians and producers do not refer to Ruminant Clinical facilities for specialized services on time enough to avoid economic losses and animal death. We also describe on this study two case reports. The first one describes a surgical technique to produce rigid ankilosis and the second one describes a fetal anasarca condition in sheep.