Plantas y sustancias tóxicas para el ganado

Abstract

Economic losses caused by plant poisonings are difficult to quantify, mainly because very different mechanisms of action and toxicities exist. These can result in a sudden high mortality, decline in reproductive rates, birth defects, and drop in the gain of weight. But despite the difficulty in detection, it is clear that the effect of poisoning strongly affects the economic performance of meat producers. The objective of this presentation is to provide information that will facilitate producers to recognize the toxic plants, and to provide new resources to veterinaries to accurately diagnosis poisoning by detailing the clinical alterations, the biochemical parameters and the macroscopic lesions, that are observable at necropsy.