Small lambs explain why this is happening

[primmiemoo]

We had a horrible Enzo outbreak last year dead and small weak lambs, have subsequently vaccinated entire flock last autumn which has remarkedly reduced losses however still got quite a few small weak lambs at beginning of lambing around week before due date. Is this the Enzo phasing out should I look forward to next year?

Look forward to next year, @dunc999 - the difference was considerable when the flock was vaccinated here.
Any glitches you've had this year might be to do with toxo, maybe? - there's a subclinical grumble of it from time to time in ours, but it's made a routine to run ewe lambs through the lambing sheds during the year pre-tupping so the majority have been exposed to it. Ewe lambs are vaccinated against enzo, and, touch wood, the oldest ewes haven't yet needed a second vaccination.

Horrible thing, enzo. The year our lot had it, I got incredibly tired and down with the extra strain.

 

[Boydvalley]

The important thing about enzo is if you think you have an outbreak get some test done asp. We dosed everything with oxytetracyclin which after 3/4 days stopped them and we returned to an almost normal lambing for the last two weeks. Hate to think what would of happened if we hadn't it spreads so quick. Slightly scary to pick up the oxytetracyclin by the case though