Scour in lambs

primmiemoo

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Location
Devon
Does anybody ever get them over watery mouth. A mate reckoned vets gave them electrolytes and one recovered. Can’t remember one ever surviving with us.
It can be done, but it's not easy. They can go down so fast, it's luck as much as anything. Anti-inflamatory, fluids (whilst not overloading), antibiotic, and sorting out any blockage. Intensive stuff, and a mini crash crisis.
 

Welshram

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I’ve always injected them with glucose to keep them going and 2ml of penicillin saved a few if they look brighter in a few hours lay seem to come ok if not there dead
 

muleman

Member
Ive saved quite a few this time with watery mouth,
1ml betamox injected and 1 ml down throat.
Saved maybe a dozen and a couple beat me.
 

TlymarT_028

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West
Got a couple cade lambs on a bucket rearer that have gone wet around the back end. Any ideas? Not got them on ad lib on the bucket because every time you put milk in (even a litre between 5) they look as if they've gorged themselves with big bellies on them. Not fully bloating as it keeps happening and it goes down and they're fine between feeds. First year on the bucket so any help appreciated
 

Sheepfog

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Location
Southern England
Got a couple cade lambs on a bucket rearer that have gone wet around the back end. Any ideas? Not got them on ad lib on the bucket because every time you put milk in (even a litre between 5) they look as if they've gorged themselves with big bellies on them. Not fully bloating as it keeps happening and it goes down and they're fine between feeds. First year on the bucket so any help appreciated

How old are they?

It will be much healthier for them to be on ad lib. Just make sure the milk never runs out and stays fresh, otherwise they will gorge when you fill it up which is not good for them.

I usually dose mine for cocci at around 3 weeks old if they start to scour. They dry up quickly afterwards, which just shows the infection pressure even in a pen that is well bedded.
 

TlymarT_028

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West
How old are they?

It will be much healthier for them to be on ad lib. Just make sure the milk never runs out and stays fresh, otherwise they will gorge when you fill it up which is not good for them.

I usually dose mine for cocci at around 3 weeks old if they start to scour. They dry up quickly afterwards, which just shows the infection pressure even in a pen that is well bedded.
Oldest 2 are 4 weeks on Saturday
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
We have had a problem scour the last two years. Vet tests indicated a Rota virus thing, yellow like Colmans mustard running down legs at 24/48 hrs. Affecting up to 50% of lambs in pens one or two days, must be environmental thing, worse on damp days.
0.7ml of subcutaneous Betamox LA/Trymox as soon as lambs started to look slightly dull, or do both lambs soon as the first one scours, was the cure. Weren't losing lambs, but it's just another job to worry about.
Touch wood, only had a couple of lambs displaying symptoms year.
 
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ladycrofter

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
Yellow turning redish yellow in sever cases
We had one, not bloody but kind of terracotta colour and v smelly, few days old. AB injected and 1 ml penicillin down the throat. Think its the latter that did the job.
Not a fan of doing research on v young lambs, they die too quickly, just dose.
Something learned (that should've been common sense 🙄 - he was at the water bucket the next day slurping it down. Poor soul was dehydrated from scour. I should have tubed him maybe 25 ml water mixed with the penicillin and a touch of molasses.)
 
We have had a problem scour the last two years. Vet tests indicated a Rota virus thing, yellow like Colmans mustard running down legs at 24/48 hrs. Affecting up to 50% of lambs in pens one or two days, must be environmental thing, worse on damp days.
0.7ml of subcutaneous Betamox LA/Trymox as soon as lambs started to look slightly dull, or do both lambs soon as the first one scours, was the cure. Weren't losing lambs, but it's just another job to worry about.
Touch wood, only had a couple of lambs displaying symptoms year.
This describes this year for me

pens have never been as clean sheep have had far more room than usual too
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
No rhyme or reason to it, plenty of straw in pens, loads of cubicle lime scattered in pens between ewes, shed pressure washed after lambing etc.
Only thing different I left the trailer load of hurdles outside, instead of putting them under cover. Whether sunlight, weathering, whatever, has prevented disease carryover?
Always something to confound you with sheep.
 

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