spectam....in a muddle

[spin cycle]

don't use much....but had a disaster...my helper put bottle back in box upside down and leaked out.......my fekkin new vets are 'out of stock' and this morning 3 vulnerable lambs......tried another vet...'moving away from stocking it'

what can i do apart from warmth and artificial colostrum

 

[Farmworker82]

Our vet suggested 1ml long acting penicillin for triplet lambs as we couldn’t get any spectam, had one or with watery mouth but it was the best we could do

 

[Northern territory]

don't use much....but had a disaster...my helper put bottle back in box upside down and leaked out.......my fekkin new vets are 'out of stock' and this morning 3 vulnerable lambs......tried another vet...'moving away from stocking it'

what can i do apart from warmth and artificial colostrum

Electrolyte solution is worth a try we have done one and had a success, doesn’t work every time but neither does spectam. We had that happen with orojet years ago, expensive.

 

[scottish-lleyn]

Give them a ml of betamox or similar if you have it.and a big dose of colostrum

 

[Timbo]

Spectam should be used as required not a blanket covering..

 

[primmiemoo]

Good colostrum and TLC, spin.

Once upon a time, we could use a diluted sulfonamide as oral drench for vulnerable lambs, but that's no longer allowed.

A calculated jab of alamycin LA is what we've been advised, but only when the lamb has clear symptoms of watery mouth.

The Vet won't prescribe spectam until a lamb dies of watery mouth and it has been diagnosed by p.m..
Too many have been using it too freely, unfortunately.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Strip a milky ewe out that’s just lambed

 

[Northern territory]

Don’t think colostrum works when they get to that stage ime

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Don’t think colostrum works when they get to that stage ime

Neither will spectam

 

[Northern territory]

Neither will spectam

Yep agree they rarely get better

 

[Jimdog1]

Some kind of laxative to make them poo. 5 ml of liquid paraffin. And 1ml betamox. Keep your fingers crossed. Good luck.

 

[texelburger]

Haven't used it for 5 years and had no cases of watery mouth.Perhaps we have just been lucky but we decided to only use it if we saw a problem.Other changes in the lambing shed was to stop cleaning out individual pens and spray disinfectant with fresh straw on top.
The shed is open ,newish with a concrete floor and is thoroughly cleaned out post lambing to become a machinery shed alongside temporary corn storage.

 

[Timbo]

Prevention is your friend. That means pens mucked out after each ewe, limed well, plenty of straw. Buckets in holders up off the floor, ewes' in good order and with good colostrum.

If in any doubt tube the lamb with at least 150ml artificial colostrum at the prescribed strength. with a tube stored in hibscrub or similar, and not those bloody awful red rubber ones!!!!!

 

[farmerm]

Neither will spectam

I always thought that but recently our vet recommended giving a 4 day old lamb spectam once a day for 3 days and it did come right...

 

[spin cycle]

Spectam should be used as required not a blanket covering..

i don't.....i use it on 'risk assessment' basis ....i had plenty but had whoops up and mine got spilt

 

[spin cycle]

thanks all

 

[CopperBeech]

Is it not alamycin for watery mouth rather than penicillin

 

[CopperBeech]

Also enema works well if they haven’t shifted the black stuff yet

 

[aangus]

1ml of Alamycin LA down the throat

 

[hilux]

1ml of Alamycin LA down the throat

Does this work?