Table 2.

Clinical parameters studied and scored

	General condition	Feeding behaviour	Dehydration	Faecal index
Score 0	Good	Normal appetite	No persistence of skinfolds	Absence of diarrhoea
	(correct degree of fatness and good vivacity)		No sunken eyeballs
			Moist mucosa
Score 1	Medium	Reduced appetite	Persistence of skinfolds <5 s	Semi-liquid diarrhoea
	(medium degree of fatness and vivacity)		No sunken eyeballs
			Moist mucosa
Score 2	Mediocre	Anorexia	Persistence of skinfolds (6 to 30 s)	Liquid diarrhoea
	(thin and low vivacity)		Sunken eyeballs
			Mucosa +/- moist
Score 3	Poor		Persistence of skinfolds > 30 s
	(Cachexia and/or decubitus, coma)		Very sunken eyeballs
			Dry mucosa