An outbreak of white muscle disease in lambs born of ewes on a zero grazing system in Natal.
White muscle disease appeared in lambs born of ewes in the zero grazing group during the course of a comparative fertility trial on ewes on various systems of husbandry. Analysis of the feed showed barely adequate selenium in the maize silage and a deficiency in the soil on which the high lysine maize was grown. Treatment of the lambs with a selenium/vitamin E injection rapidly controlled the condition. This deficiency may be more widespread than is presently realised.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009137:Muscular Dystrophy, Animal / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D013019:South Africa; D014912:White Muscle Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology