Lamb with watery mouth

[will6910]

Have lamb showing signs of watery mouth This evening. What should I give him that'l help ?
Thanks

 

[liammogs]

5ml penstrep

 

[yellowbelly]

5ml penstrep

It's a lamb not a hogg

I'd suggest 1ml down his throat and 1ml in his backside and put him under a heat lamp. If you've seen him soon enough he could get over it, if you haven't he'll be in the dead box

 

[will6910]

He was ok this morning. Think I need to get myself couple more heat lamps as all I have are being used at moment :/

 

[valtraman]

Get some apralan sachet, mix two with 100ml of water, keep In a bottle and give lambs 5 ml each time over there throat. That's what we used to do when lanced sheep, sometimes we would just do them when they were born

 

[yellowbelly]

He was ok this morning. Think I need to get myself couple more heat lamps as all I have are being used at moment :/

Most important thing is to make sure you see them suck asap after they are born.
We see a little bit of watery mouth towards the end of lambing. I expect it's 'cos the pen hygiene starts to get a bit lax by then

 

[Stewartry hill]

Treat it's twin also just in case before it shows symptoms

 

[jemski]

I also give 100ml rehydration fluid - I use human sachet stuff. Seems to make a big difference here.

 

[jemski]

Also if you can get them oxytetracycline tablets are very good at curing it.

 

[msheep66]

Spectram oral I find usually clears it up as long as you catch it early.

 

[will6910]

Thanks all

 

[Leereade]

Spectum all lambs here

 

[hillman]

250ml electrolyte x4 times
Batyril injection
5ml liquid paraffin
Above recommended by vet

I also give a shot of soapy water up bum to move things

Keep warm in a tub on top of a hot water bottle if want to keep with mum

 

[adda]

we use to suffer with watery mouth years ago then started using spectrum have not seen sign of it for years

 

[Davy Boy]

you need to give it electrolytes as per @hillman above as they get dehydrated fairly quickly. Good luck.

 

[Downton_shep]

1ml Betamox La

 

[jemski]

1ml Betamox La

My vet told me that Betamox is not effective in treating watery mouth

 

[Downton_shep]

My vet told me that Betamox is not effective in treating watery mouth

It seams to work very well here. If it's just got a wet mouth but bright I will treat and still turn out. Very rarely lose a lamb to WM.

 

[Sir loin]

At a meeting the other day and a vet said pain relief was very important as well when treating WM.

 

[bovine]

Spectam or Oroject are licensed in lambs and fine as an antibiotic treatment. We really ought to try and move away from routine use as they will ban it at some point, we need to create systems that don't rely on routine antibiotic use.

Betamox LA might work, it does have some activity against E.coli. Pen&Strep is an odd choice, penicillin does nothing, the streptomycin should, but why dose for 125kg? I wouldn't intentionally give one drug I knew wouldn't work. @hillman there is no need for Baytril, your vet is a bad man and babies will die.

Oral hydration VITAL. Calf scour formula usually best value. 50ml/kg 3-4 times per day.

I give them Loxicom as an anti-inflammatory and it seems to really help to make them feel better. It also deals with some of the toxins from the bacteria (but dose accurately as can be hard on the kidneys, so more isn't magically better).