Hi All, have a Texel ewe with a persistent eye problem. Just went then Betamox seems to have cleared the cloudiness up, it arrives back say a month later. Been going on for a good while now and whilst it does clear up for a bit of time, it always seems to come back. Eye begins to cloud over and will continue to get cloudier. I don't want to keep injecting her but I also do not want to cull her if possible. Any ideas?
Persistent eye problem with ewe
- Thread starter Fourofakind
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I would just cull it...what’s the point in keeping a ewe that has a persistent problem
- Location
- Shropshire
Get a mastisis tube of a dairy man squirt it under the lids little bit maybe 3 days apart be sound
- Location
- Shropshire
Injectables don’t go travel well into eyes unless you inject into the tissue below the eye lid and that’s not very handy to do
M-J-G
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Inject into the conjunctiva, I wouldn't waste my time doing anything else.
I use 2/3 alamycin and 1/3 steroid.
I use 2/3 alamycin and 1/3 steroid.
- Location
- Shropshire
In the same syringe ?
M-J-G
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Yes
twizzel
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I had a ram like this. Cleared it up and in winter it flared up with the wind and summer the flies. Got fed up of treating it in the end and culled him. It wasn’t genetic, his oldest offspring are 2yr old now and eyes are fine. Vet reckoned he had scratched it and damaged the surface of the eye.
- Location
- Devon
Is there something actually causing a repeat out break rather than a flair up,ie stuffing its face into something like a bale,had this earlier in the year with round bale haylage that had a hole in the wrap
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