Abstract

LESIONS DES ONGLONS ET BOITERIE CHEZ LES BOVINS EN STABULATION NOURRIS DE DRECHES DE BRASSERIE EN OUGANDA Resume Une evaluation des consequences directes de l'alimentation des bovins en stabulation avec des dreches de brasserie sur les onglons a ete faite lors d'une etude conduite dans le district de Kampala. Les pattes de 218 bovins dans 35 unites de stabulation ont ete examinees de juin 2003 a juin 2004. Les bovins dans 20/35 unites de stabulation etaient servis de dreches de brasserie, tandis que ceux dans les 15 autres n'en recevaient pas. Les unites etaient soigneusement choisies. La comparaison des animaux nourris de dreches de brasserie a ceux qui n'en etaient pas servis, a revele que les lesions dues a la fourbure aigue etaient deux fois plus frequentes chez les derniers. Les lesions dues a la fourbure aigue constituaient 66,6% des lesions observees chez les bovins servis de dreches de brasserie et 33,4% chez les autres qui n'en recevaient pas. Pendant l'enquete qui a dure une annee, la boiterie due aux lesions des onglons affectait 36,7% des animaux. Quarante- sept pour- cent (47,8%) des bovins nourris de dreches de brasserie souffraient de boiterie a cause des lesions des onglons, compare a 24% chez ceux qui n'en recevaient pas. La boiterie etait fortement liee a l'alimentation avec des dreches de brasserie (Χ ² (0,05 ; 1) = 3,84 Mots-cles: Bovins en stabulation, dreche de brasserie, fourbure aigue, boiterie, elevage periurbain. An assessment of the direct consequenses of feeding brewer's grain on claws of zero-grazed cattle was undertaken in an incidence study in Kampala District. Feet from 218 cattle in 35 zerograzing units were studied from June 2003 to June 2004. Cattle in 20 of the zero-grazing units were fed brewer's grain while 15 of the units did not feed brewer's grain. The units were conveniently selected. Comparing brewer's grain fed and non-grain fed animals, the prevalence of laminitis associated lesions was doubled in the former. Laminitis-associated lesions constituted 66.6% of all lesions in cattle fed on brewer's grain and 33.4% in those not fed brewer's grain. Within the one year of investigation, 36.7% of the animals studied suffered lameness as a result of claw lesions. Fortyseven percent (47.8%) of cattle fed on brewer's grain suffered from lameness due to claw lesions compared to 24.0% of those not fed on brewer's grain. Lameness was strongly associated with the feeding of brewer's grain (Χ ² (0.05, 1) =3.84 Key words: Zero-grazed cattle, brewer's grain, laminitis, lameness, peri-urban farming. Bull Anim. Hlth. Prod. Afr. (2005) 53(2), 107-112

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