Interesting and simple solutions, thanks both. I use salty water to bathe cuts and grazes, but thought orf sores would need more oomph.
Using neat Dettol on the wet sort of orf, so it does dilute a little, but will see if saltwater makes a difference.
Agree that orf hardly ever needs antibiotics. I wouldn't take them for cold sores, after all.
Antibiotics wouldn't be as hard on the lambs as antiseptics, I woulld use antibiotic spray first and if they needed repeated treatment it'd be just salty water to keep it moist and help it heal.....the antibiotic spray usually works thought, but nothing is used if the skin isn;t broken, some farmers actually use a toothbrush on it and jeyes fluid, burnt oil. parafin or some other snake oil