Scouring lambs

[gerr]

So frustrated. Did a fec count, high count, gave them Zolvix drench, still scouring, did fec again, low count. On a big flush of grass. They’re just not doing and look pot bellied. Any ideas please.

 

[Wood field]

Copper (short of) ?
Yes I know they “ shouldn’t “ have it , our get it via drench

 

[gerr]

They’re Texels so I avoid copper.

 

[Wood field]

They’re Texels so I avoid copper.

I almost put unless they are texel!
Only other thing we’ve had ( with a bunch of adult ewes ) was coxi, I found it hard to believe but in desperation put a coxi clear bucket in that was left over from spring , and it cured them

 

[Old apprentice]

Cobolt.

 

[gerr]

Cobolt.

Possibly but were bolused 3 months back.

 

[Old apprentice]

Blood tests? If they are that bad.

 

[Bury the Trash]

constant wet weather /high rainfall is not helping sheep do atm either

 

[AftonShepherd]

Fluke?

 

[gerr]

Fluke?

Also been drenched with Combinex for fluke.

 

[Farmer Fin]

Wet lush grass just going straight through them. Loads of scouring lambs round here the past few week.

 

[Top Tip.]

Also been drenched with Combinex for fluke.

A lot of triclabendazole resistance about.

 

[Lemon curd]

Lush grass, high protein. kidneys cant cope with getting rid of excess urea so it ends up being excreted in the faeces causing scour. Did fecs on 5 shitty arsed and 5 clean in a group of lambs and the worm burden was exactly the same in all 10. Each lamb has a different genetic rate of metabolism and therefore they dont all scour.

 

[delilah]

Bring a couple inside on hay, if they dry up its environmental factors.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Blood tests for cobalt if you’re happy to throw a bit of money at it, if they’re just eating grass it makes a huge different, we’ve not looked back since we started with the smartshot 5 years ago. Plenty of boluses won’t last 3 months in the real world.

 

[neilo]

1. Wet lush grass with excess protein, no energy and no fibre?

2. Copper deficiency here produces a profuse brown'ish scour, even in pure Texel/Beltexes. Most of this area, and many others, is high in molybdenum, locking up the copper.

3. Iodine deficiency, which is being increasingly seen all over the UK for some reason, shows here as a profuse, black scour and looks very much like they are hooching with worms. A blood test will let you know if Iodine is a problem, but adds cost over the standard Cu/Co/Se test the vet usually recommends and can take a month to come back. If they are Iodine deficiency, giving them a TE drench containing potassium iodide (a lot that have copper in don't have Iodine any more, so read the label!) will dry them up within days IME. The boluses might have contained Iodine, but they don't supplement iodine very well at all IME, whatever the make.

Having eliminated worms, I'd hazard a guess at 1 and/or 3.