twin lamb disease
- 雌羊(雌ヒツジ)において、低血糖から引き起こされる高ケトン血症による障害のこと。
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- Twin Lamb Disease (TLD) can occur in thin or over fat ewes and is triggered by a stressful event such as a change in weather, change in diet or foot problems which results in a critical shortage of blood glucose causing a demand on the ewe using her backfat for energy. This backfat travels to the liver to be processed into energy but if excessive amounts are mobilised, the liver struggles to cope. With a rapid and large load on the liver, the fat breakdown is not completed; ketones begin forming and the ewe begins to suffer from TLD.(https://www.harbro.co.uk/nutrition/nutritional-articles/sheep/sheep-preventing-twin-lamb-disease/)