Green violent scours in lambs and hogs

WHat could it be? Certainly not worms as FEC in the 50-70 range on all including unaffected.
AB jab as per vets ins - but no difference.
22 out of a group of 35 retained ewe lambs (retained for breeding next year) - all vaccinated on Bravoixin.
Lost 1 already to dehydration - the muck is consitency of custard and bright green, on rough pp with some areas of better grass. Could their be something on the wet part of the field?
 

Farmer_Joe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
i had something ish similar but was slightly more watery, although egg count was not massively high(as i understand) 7000ish for coccidosis thats what it was, prob or no help sorry.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Copper deficiency in our lambs showed as a light brown watery scour. Iodine deficiency presents as a dark, watery scour (or it does here) and they melt away to nothing, just as they would with a high worm burden.
A cheap (5-7p/hd) TE drench would dry them up within a day, if that is the issue, so cheap enough to try if you've ruled out the most likely candidates of worms and cocci. A pooled blood test for Iodine isn't cheap and takes several weeks to report back, but is obviously the beat way to investigate properly.
 

icanshootwell

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Ross-on-wye
Copper deficiency in our lambs showed as a light brown watery scour. Iodine deficiency presents as a dark, watery scour (or it does here) and they melt away to nothing, just as they would with a high worm burden.
A cheap (5-7p/hd) TE drench would dry them up within a day, if that is the issue, so cheap enough to try if you've ruled out the most likely candidates of worms and cocci. A pooled blood test for Iodine isn't cheap and takes several weeks to report back, but is obviously the beat way to investigate properly.
It might depend on what they are eating to what colour the scour is. A copper tablet is pence . Can be overlooked sometimes.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Could it be Parasitic Gastroentinitis?

PGE sheep, google image it. I saw some lambs like this a few weeks back with someone. not 1 would have been over 20kg and looked like they were going backwards quick, the wool was also very stary and dull!
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
It might depend on what they are eating to what colour the scour is. A copper tablet is pence . Can be overlooked sometimes.

Those lambs were on grass and a lb a day of lamb creep.

Yes, Copper capsule is cheap enough, but need to be careful about overdosing. We have very high molybdenum here, which locks up copper totally, so have to give copper regularly or we get problems. Above symptoms were when we were discovering quite how big a problem we had here.:banghead: Thankfully it’s no5 one of the hardest, or dearest, to solve.
 

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