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COMMON VICES OF ANIMALS, THEIR PREVENTION AND CURE:
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A vice is an undesirable quality or the faulty bad habit of an animal. It adversely affects the health and performance of other animals of the herd too. Some vices are dangerous and some are injurious to the owner, animal or both and make the animals almost useless.


S.no. Vice Meaning Reason Prevention & cure
1. Kicking Striking others with a foot. Lack of floor space, fear, irritation, mischievousness, estrous, faulty milking. Application of anti-kicking straps.
2.Holding tail vertically high.
3.Apply ‘anti-cow kicker’ above hocks.
2. Self-sucking Sucking their own udder Bad management and deficiency of feeding 1.Separate the cows.
2.Apply muzzle.
3.Apply anti-sucking plate.
3. Butting Hurting other animals or humans with horns Lack of feeding, insecurity, irritation to a particular thing. 1.By judicious management.
2.By dehorning.
3.Isolating animal from rest of the herd.
4. Coprophagia Eating its own feces Bad weather, indigestion, half starved condition, mineral deficiency. 1.Providing sufficient feed both in quality and quantity. 2.Proper disposal of manure.
5. Pica Eating of unusual materials Deficiency of phosphorous and worm infestations. 1.Well balanced ration.
2.Mineral mixture in ration.

 
6. Licking
or gnawing. 		Cattle licking each other, walls, urine, etc. Deficiency of sodium, chlorine, calcium. Worm infestations. 1.Provide adequate ration containing
sufficient amount of minerals and vitamins.
2.Provide salt licks to affected animals. 3.Following routine ming programmes.
7. Intersucking
in calves 		Problem of presence of animals above average size in herds. When calves are grouped shortly after their birth or when they are bucket fed. 1.Separate the calf after feeding.
2.Do not group the calves until they are more than 4 weeks of age.
3.Provide good feed.


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Developed by :
Jaspal Singh
(Ex. M.V.Sc Scholar )		  Dr. Pranav Kumar
(Assistant Professor) 		Amandeep Singh
(Final Year B.V.Sc & AH student)
Division of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, R.S. Pura, SKUAST Jammu