Clinical Examination of Farm Animals - CYF MEDICAL DISTRIBUTION

CHAPTER 7
Diaphragmatic lobe
Intermediate
lobe
Apical lobe
Cardiac lobe
Right lung (lateral aspect)
Apical lobe
Diaphragmatic lobe
Cardiac lobe
Cranial part of apical lobe
of right lung
Left lung (lateral aspect)
Figure 7.1 Left lung (lateral aspect) and
right lung (lateral aspect).
most reliable way to obtain the respiration rate. It is
preferable to have the animal in the standing position,
as abnormalities can be modified by recumbency
and may be missed. On a cold winter’s day the
respiratory rate can be counted accurately by observing
the plume of condensation from the nostrils on
expiration.
Conditions causing respiratory
disease
Conditions of calves
These may include enzootic pneumonia, infectious
bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), parainfluenza 3 (PI3),
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), bovine viral diarrhoea
(BVD), mycoplasmas, Pasteurella and foreign
body pneumonia.
Conditions of growing cattle
These may include IBR, RSV, lungworm, Pasteurella
and Haemophilus.
Conditions of adult cattle
These may include chronic suppurative pneumonia,
caudal vena caval syndrome, tuberculosis, fog fever,
diffuse fibrosing alveolitis (bovine farmer’s lung),
pasteurellosis and lungworm.
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