Inappetence & Anorexia

Inappetence is the partial loss of appetite and Anorexia is the complete absence of appetite/feed intake in animals. Anorexia is a universally common clinical sign in both infectious and non-infectious disease. In ruminants, inappetence or anorexia will kick start a cascade of damaging effects since the rumen microbiota, pH and motility are affected