Sheep deaths

[marlon dingle]

Had a ewe die three weeks ago seemed to just deteriorate over the space of a month nothing we tried had any affect wormed , fluked , anti biotics etc , her lambs were both born small and weak and one died before she did at around 3 weeks the other shortly after she died at around 6 weeks. We suspected the lambs had borders disease but never confirmed with PM. Any way had a separate lamb about 6 weeks old went very lethargic , didn’t want to stand almost seemed lame but no obvious signs of issues with feet or legs , was wormed with clear and then white wormer at 4 and 6 weeks old due to its behaviour and also give alamycin but died after about a week was massively bloated when I found him. Then another death today a gimmer Hogg from the ewe that died at the start of all this surprisingly or not , she again had the same symptoms of the 6 week old lamb checked her feet for issues nothing visable no signs of fly strike she spent the last week hanging away from the rest of Hoggs reluctant to stand , went to give her anti boitics yesterday and she seemed better was up when I arrived and with the rest of hoggs so left it and then of course I get to the field today and there she is tucked in a corner dead . Is there any link to these deaths would you say or are they just sheep been sheep.

 

[Bury the Trash]

What are their livers like on PM?

Is there anything like Rhodedendron (spelling) around about where they are grazed? Especially in winter ....or when grass is tighter ....

 

[John Chance]

PM would be the best you money you ever spend.

 

[marlon dingle]

What are their livers like on PM?

Is there anything like Rhodedendron (spelling) around about where they are grazed? Especially in winter ....or when grass is tighter ....

PM would be the best you money you ever spend.

Sent for a PM so we will see , Slightly concerned about mv in the ewes that died after googling it , would the Hogg be to young for it to be MV ? My understanding is it mainly affects older sheep. Tried to search for threads on here for it but none coming up . Thanks

 

[GreenerGrass]

Do you heptavac your flock?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Sent for a PM so we will see , Slightly concerned about mv in the ewes that died after googling it , would the Hogg be to young for it to be MV ? My understanding is it mainly affects older sheep. Tried to search for threads on here for it but none coming up . Thanks

Best way to search on here is to untick any pre ticked search boxes as you find in the search area then none other than just fill in the lowest box of all the .. 'google custom search ' ..one

But reading into too much will probably just to add to unproductive worry, best just to wait for the pm results

 

[marlon dingle]

Do you heptavac your flock?

Yes pal

 

[marlon dingle]

Best way to search on here is to untick any pre ticked search boxes as you find in the search area then none other than just fill in the lowest box of all the .. 'google custom search ' ..one

But reading into too much will probably just to add to unproductive worry, best just to wait for the pm results

Ok thanks and I agree I’m not doing myself any favours as could be anything !

 

[Shep and dog]

I’ve seen a dead sheep once some say they have them other say they only hear about them but some times sheep die for the fun of it but the only thing I would say is alway cut up ever dead sheep u have to see if u can work out why it die if your not sure how to do it get your vets to show u on one it will be the most profitable job you ever do. But we had a sheep die a week after she lamb this year nothing we did work turn out that her uterus had rip open inside and a lamb had gone into her belly and she died form the subsequent infection sorry if this was no help