Long-term safety of dietary salt: A 5-year ProspEctive rAndomized bliNded and controlled stUdy in healThy aged cats (PEANUT study).

Background: High-salt diets promote urine dilution and decrease urolithiasis risk.

Objective: Prospectively evaluate the safety of chronic high dietary salt intake (randomized controlled trial).

Animals: Twenty research colony neutered, healthy aged cats (11.

Postpartum clostridial gangrenous metritis in 12 dairy goats in France.

Clostridial infections in goats have been associated frequently with enteric diseases or gas gangrene but very rarely with the reproductive system. We describe here 12 cases of fatal postpartum gangrenous metritis in does associated with infection by several clostridial species. Clinically, these cases were characterized by rapid onset of hyperthermia followed by death after kidding.

Detailed analysis of mortality rates in the female progeny of 1,001 Holstein bulls allows the discovery of new dominant genetic defects.

Reducing juvenile mortality in cattle is important for both economic and animal welfare reasons. Previous studies have revealed a large variability in mortality rates between breeds and sire progeny groups, with some extreme cases due to dominant mutations causing various syndromes among the descendants of mosaic bulls. The purpose of this study was to monitor sire-family calf mortality within the French and Walloon Holstein populations, and to use this information to detect genetic defects that might have been overlooked by lack of specific symptoms.

Infectious Bovine Respiratory Diseases in Adult Cattle: An Extensive Necropsic and Etiological Study.

In young cattle, bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a major cause of death and is a frequent pathogen. Knowledge of fatal BRD in adult cattle is more limited. We assessed the importance of infectious BRD as a cause of death in adult cattle and determined the associated pathogens.