scatterbrainedlass
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- Lancashire
Having a really bad do with lambs this year. We have been dosing with Covexin for the past 2 years (cheaper than hep p), but got hit with pasteurella early June. On vet advice we revaccinated the entire flock with hep p. We are now experiencing random deaths all down to various clostridial diseases. Pasteurella, big head (one with a head massively swollen, caught in time and recovered, another dead, pm'd and body was swollen). Took 4 lambs to abattoir this morning and asked them to let us know the state of organs. Healthy looking lambs, 42kg+, vet reported abcesses on liver and pneumonia on lungs.
We are also battling wormer resistance which isn't helping as their immune response is probably affected, but we're pretty fed up that we've spent £100's on clostridial vaccines and we're still losing way too many.
Anyone else having these issues, is it possibly just a bad year for it or are we just really unlucky?
We are also battling wormer resistance which isn't helping as their immune response is probably affected, but we're pretty fed up that we've spent £100's on clostridial vaccines and we're still losing way too many.
Anyone else having these issues, is it possibly just a bad year for it or are we just really unlucky?