Identifying sheep lameness

[farmerm]

On tv other night about sensors on sheep to send signal when sheep walk pattern or head dropping motion detected ?
To aid foot problems.
Think £10 each but getting smaller to fit on tag or something around £5 eventually ?
Boffin explained .
Good Farmers can spot it anyhow ???

Christ I can spot enough lame ones without paying for a device to point out more!

 

[It was already broken.]

If you are keeping the batch of ewes long term are you 'treat and cull' the lame ones @Spartacus?

 

[Spartacus]

If you are keeping the batch of ewes long term are you 'treat and cull' the lame ones @Spartacus?

Not at this time of year no (they are with the tup now), and we had a bad year for lameness last year so we'd be well down on numbers of we had done last year!

This summer pretty much every time we had the ewes and lambs in for anything we ran them thru a footbath. Not sure if that's what helped this year or just a coincidence as said above!

 

[Grassman]

I had a really bad time a couple of years ago with codd.
One of the worst ewes I couldn't get it in a good enough state to send to market but now it's ok.
No others limping except odd sheep with scald.
I recon the flock gets an immunity to codd unlike footrot.

 

[Still Farming]

Christ I can spot enough lame ones without paying for a device to point out more!

Yes we know but you tell the boffins ???
Think on Countryfile or some thing ?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

On tv other night about sensors on sheep to send signal when sheep walk pattern or head dropping motion detected ?
To aid foot problems.
Think £10 each but getting smaller to fit on tag or something around £5 eventually ?
Boffin explained .
Good Farmers can spot it anyhow ???

I thought, for a few quid it could be very good to put on your best sheep if you are breeding high price pedigree sheep.

Also, surely it could be useful to let you know when the sheep are out and running and, therefore, could be useful to alert you immediately if they are running at full pelt during a dig attack.

Anyone got any good links to help diagnose the reason for lameness in sheep? Did 2 or 3 wile changing crayons today and I'm not sure if it is foot root or codd. View attachment 602008View attachment 602010

And a different sheep's foot. Whole hoof peeling off.
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Would that ever heal or grow back to any degree? Would the sheep be any further use or is she buggered?

 

[bovine]

I recon the flock gets an immunity to codd unlike footrot.

They do get immunity to CODD but when we remember there is a vaccine for footrot I'll let you complete the sentence yourself.....

 

[farmerm]

I thought, for a few quid it could be very good to put on your best sheep if you are breeding high price pedigree sheep.

Also, surely it could be useful to let you know when the sheep are out and running and, therefore, could be useful to alert you immediately if they are running at full pelt during a dig attack.

Would that ever heal or grow back to any degree? Would the sheep be any further use or is she buggered?

If you are breeding high pedegree stock you should cull any that get lame

They do eventually recover or I wouldn't have any sheep left after last year!

Sheep will run at full pelt just for fun.. don't need a dig chasing them..

 

[Cab-over Pete]

That’s me told then!!

I’m sure nobody would cull a top spec sheep for having a bit of scald a time or two, would they?

It sounds the right thing to do and everybody nods their heads but, seriously, do you think it’s practiced everywhere?

 

[johnflimston]

What would be useful is something that could pick out lame sheep running down race.
Not too bad when lame on front leg but not easy to see lame on back leg.
I know equine hospitals have facilities to check gait on lame horses but same thing would be useful for sheep race.
Anyone can pick out lame ewes in field but once bunched up its difficult .