Anyone seen this?

[Quaddog]

Picked this one up today. Dragging both back legs. Looks a bit like swayback but it came on suddenly. Lovely big single. Any ideas anyone?

 

[cheviot53]

Spinal abscess or it seems lead poisoning , not had any luck treating spinal abscess in the past , so good luck

 

[capfits]

Unfortunately looks like a spinal abscess, injury or from tick bourne infection I would guess.

 

[cheviot53]

My old vet said an infection traveling up the spine from the tail wound made by a rubber ring

 

[Shearerbob287]

Pretty sure it’s swayback,I’ve picked up 5 lambs like this already, some worse some slightly better.
Any ideas would be very welcome

 

[ritchiekirkland]

I had one do that suddenly the other day too , I put it down to swayback
Get the odd one every year

 

[yellowbelly]

Picked this one up today. Dragging both back legs. Looks a bit like swayback but it came on suddenly. Lovely big single. Any ideas anyone?

Spinal abscess, IMHO.

Pen Strep every day for 5 or 6 days.

If you don't see and improvement, depending on how much you want to mess about, it's either another few days of Pen Strep or you put it down.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I’d agree with spinal abscess …..unfortunately they rarely come right ime

 

[Enfoff]

I don't know if this link will work but it is for Dale Farm on You tube. They had similar which their vet thought was lead poisoning.

 

[Quaddog]

I don’t think it’s lead, none in that part of the farm that I know. Probably as some have said spinal abcess. It came on a bit too fast for swayback.

 

[Quaddog]

Interesting video from dale farm, be good to see if she gets any answers. In my very limited experience of vets pms I’m not very lucky. They never seem to come up with a definitive answer.

 

[Keithy1394]

Ive had 5 like that i put it down to swayback or spinal abcess as had trouble with joint ill too ive been jabbing mine with alymicin and metacam 3 seem not to bad 1 abit worse and i shot one on friday as it could'nt walk

 

[Shearerbob287]

Preliminary report from vets indicate very high levels of iron ,manganese and lead .lambs also were deficient for copper.
This bunch of ewes have been grazing flood meadows all winter,I am assuming they have eaten enough soil /silt to lock up any copper and that’s what we’re seeing now
God only now’s where the high level of lead has come from there isn’t any lead mines within 30 miles

 

[ridger]

Preliminary report from vets indicate very high levels of iron ,manganese and lead .lambs also were deficient for copper.
This bunch of ewes have been grazing flood meadows all winter,I am assuming they have eaten enough soil /silt to lock up any copper and that’s what we’re seeing now
God only now’s where the high level of lead has come from there isn’t any lead mines within 30 miles

Sewage?