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- Essex
Hasn't anybody heard of accredited stock???
Abortions in sheep
- Thread starter Mc115reed
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- Montgomeryshire
“Toxoplasmosis is a protozoal parasite, against which antibiotics have no effect”. From here, as well as being told so by several vets over the years:
Every day’s a school day.
Well this might be a price tracker thread but learning a lot about abortion [emoji28] never been a problem at all here I think too memory Iv only ever had 2 abortions ... but have doubled my sheep numbers in the last 2 years from various sources so i guess that comes with risk...
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- Essex
They continue to carry and spread but don't abort more than once.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Quite interesting leading about abortion , perhaps need another thread on it , out standing thing for me is the % and numbers , scary stuff a lot do t take bio security seriously enough I’d say .
One thing that hasn't been mentioned about Enzo/toxo abortion is it can effect a pregnant woman and make her abort.
It happened to a young couple where I was a gfw. Horrific, absolutely terrible!!
Seeing aborted lambs on the floor was bad, working on lambs for minutes to try and keep them alive but to no avail was hart breaking but when it infected his wife and they lost their baby, I'm man enough to say I shed a fair few tears in the calf shed.
It happened to a young couple where I was a gfw. Horrific, absolutely terrible!!
Seeing aborted lambs on the floor was bad, working on lambs for minutes to try and keep them alive but to no avail was hart breaking but when it infected his wife and they lost their baby, I'm man enough to say I shed a fair few tears in the calf shed.
We had border disease (hairy shaker) some 10 years ago if it's that message me on how we dealt with it. We did and were clear the next year but had to implement a couple of things.
Keep your sheep /lambing clothes separate, change before going back into the house and shower every time was the doctors advice to them if I remember.Yeah my mrs is due in 3 months[emoji849] not ideal at all
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- N.Lincs
Good point.
Maybe @Chris F would be good enough to fish all these posts out and put them in another thread?
Abortion is a big cost to sheep farms annually and for some reason seems to be worse this year (well, for some of us on here, at least)
It's own thread would be useful, not least to save trawling through here to find stuff and more especially so we don't upset 'the usual suspects' for straying off topic
Not ideal as you say, I'm sure you are already, but I'd be keeping my wife well away from the sheep and the lambing shed altogether, regardless of what the results throw up. Total over reaction many will feel probs, but each to their own. Steer clear of bringing any cold lambs into the house either. Best wishes to you bothYeah my mrs is due in 3 months
so i assume the animal rights lot are going to move to ireland now , irish just bought a boat to send cattle to libya ffs
Exporter does deal for cattle boat
The exporter - Curzon Livestock in Co Cork - intends to step up exports of Irish bulls to Libya and has now secured the boat it needs to do so.www.farmersjournal.ie
Not a new thing, been happening for years. Thousands shipped to north Africa, Turkey and Spain every year. Not a fan of the trade myself but its a big thing for the farmers in RoI trying to help balance supply/demand. Up until now the animal welfare campaigners have zero success in slowing it down.
- Location
- Hammerwich
Think I have done that right.
- Location
- Cheshire
livestock 1
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Mine stopped for a week then started again. Vet got me the 2k of alamycin on Friday she rang on Monday and said’just fetch it back it’s campo’ I said too late I’ve done them now. It did something thoughI never left, I’m always learning.
There are strains of campy that are resistant to oxytet apparently but, in the face of a storm, it’s still worth trying. It stopped a Campy stormdead in it’s tracks for us in 2010, after 15% already aborted.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You may well of had a resistant strain?
I was lucky not too perhaps, but as there isn’t anything else that can be done...
Fortunately mine wasn’t a £2k bill, as Alamycin LA was only £7/100ml at that time (2010).
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livestock 1
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I did a lot of sheep that weekend lol
Vets been and he said lambs are too clean for enzo, cleansing is too clean for toxo and liver I think it was ?? Looked too good for campo but has taken samples too get labs too confirm, ewes all in perfect condition and everything looks as it should so said could be as just one of them things or ust the stormy weather making them stress abort
livestock 1
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Clean white lambs - Enzo
Brown with brown cleansing-Toxo
Mix of both with a discharge type mastitis looking discharge on cleansing with white cotyledons -Campo
If ewes lean /stressed maybe nothing but that
MDL POWERUP
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Or get his vet to fight ours? Loser pays the alamycin bill