lamb blindness

[Dkb]

a bunch of store lambs got delivered to me 3 weeks ago and 1 of them was 99% blind. He follows the rest of the bunch by sound mainly and looses his way a lot of the time however he won’t walk into a wall or anything. he would walk rite up to it and then just stop walking and look straight into it for prolonged periods.

I separated him out the next day to get him to start eating a little meal as I’ll be putting him in a small pen until he’s fit to go. He never started eating the meal but I did notice that his eyesight got better after a week or so. He can now see things a good bit better but wouldn’t be fully rite either. I wouldn’t mix him back with the bunch for the winter as grazing turnips with electric strip wires definitely wouldn’t be an option.

Would it be mineral deficiency or the stress of travelling a long distance here or something else perhaps

 

[LAMBCHOPS]

vitamin b12 deficiency ask your vet and they will give you some injection. Will make full recovery

 

[neilo]

He could just have been born like it, but happy enough to run in the bunch as that’s all he’d ever have known.

I had one like it last year, who I hadn’t even noticed until I was driving the mob of ewes and lambs somewhere at about 6 weeks old. He happened to get left behind and struggled to find them for a few minutes (I couldn’t catch the beggar though).
I didn’t put him onto roots either, or he’d have been through the wire, but stuck him in the shed with the early lamberts instead. He didn’t grow very well, but did finish ok. As soon as he was anywhere near weight, he went dw, but I suspect i’d Have been better off disposing of him as soon as I'd spotted him. Or hiding him in a bunch of stores to sell to someone else.....

 

[Dkb]

He could just have been born like it, but happy enough to run in the bunch as that’s all he’d ever have known.

I had one like it last year, who I hadn’t even noticed until I was driving the mob of ewes and lambs somewhere at about 6 weeks old. He happened to get left behind and struggled to find them for a few minutes (I couldn’t catch the beggar though).
I didn’t put him onto roots either, or he’d have been through the wire, but stuck him in the shed with the early lamberts instead. He didn’t grow very well, but did finish ok. As soon as he was anywhere near weight, he went dw, but I suspect i’d Have been better off disposing of him as soon as I'd spotted him. Or hiding him in a bunch of stores to sell to someone else.....

I think it could be the b12 vet agreed and he got a shot today. The reason I think this is that he’s gotten a little better since he arrived so it’s not a born defect like I thought it was when he arrived.

 

[Moors Lad]

Are you sure it`s not the contagious blindness that sheep get (contagious opthalmia) - if it is it is going to get back to normal vision (hopefully!) . We get ointment from the vet and if it`s a bad case it get long acting a/b too.

 

[Dkb]

Are you sure it`s not the contagious blindness that sheep get (contagious opthalmia) - if it is it is going to get back to normal vision (hopefully!) . We get ointment from the vet and if it`s a bad case it get long acting a/b too.

No it’s definitely not that as the eyes look perfect but he just can see properly