Twin lamb/ scours ?

[Mc115reed]

Yesterday noticed a ewe had really bad scour... by nighttime feed shed gone off her legs... did the usual, twin lamb drench, calcium 100ml, alamycin LA 7ml... this morning notice another had scoured and now it's gone off it's legs also... rang the vets and they said give them 24hrs to come round now Iv treated for twin lamb? But the first ewe isn't looking any brighter and I treated her 24hrs ago... anyone any ideas as to what could be? Neither seem to want to eat more than a mouth full...

Fed on ad lib bale silage and ewe rolls.. both due to lamb any time soon...

 

[GTB]

Acidosis?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Yesterday noticed a ewe had really bad scour... by nighttime feed shed gone off her legs... did the usual, twin lamb drench, calcium 100ml, alamycin LA 7ml... this morning notice another had scoured and now it's gone off it's legs also... rang the vets and they said give them 24hrs to come round now Iv treated for twin lamb? But the first ewe isn't looking any brighter and I treated her 24hrs ago... anyone any ideas as to what could be? Neither seem to want to eat more than a mouth full...

Fed on ad lib bale silage and ewe rolls.. both due to lamb any time soon...

what amount of rolls are they having ?and for how long have been fed the conc.

 

[MJT]

As @GTB says , my money would be acidosis. Scouring and going off their legs and off their food, all sounds like acidosis.

 

[Mc115reed]

They've been being fed for the last 8 weeks and due to lamb imminently the same ewe rolls from the start...

Acidosis could be possibility....

 

[Bury the Trash]

They've been being fed for the last 8 weeks and due to lamb imminently the same ewe rolls from the start...

Acidosis could be possibility....

they are well used to it then

 

[Mc115reed]

Also scour is brown in colour not gone a funky green or yellow....

 

[Mc115reed]

Off to the shop for some bicarbonate anyways it won't hurt nobody to have it

 

[Mc115reed]

Off to the shop for some bicarbonate anyways it won't hurt nobody to have it

 

[Mc115reed]

Both had a pint of water with 2 table spoons of bicarbonate soda now... how fast should I be looking for them to perk up? Do I re-treat in the morning?

 

[Razor8]

Have you checked your drinkers have clean water & no dung or silage in them?

 

[Mc115reed]

Drinkers are buckets emptied and re filled daily

 

[jemski]

I had a greedy ewe with acidosis yesterday. She brightened a few hours after Bacarb and oil and today is back on her feet, and eating again.

 

[bovine]

How have you treated for twin lamb?

Bicarbonate is of very limited use for acidosis, you also need a longer acting buffer.

 

[Razor8]

Anyone heard of these bolus’s

 

[Mc115reed]

How have you treated for twin lamb?

Bicarbonate is of very limited use for acidosis, you also need a longer acting buffer.

A big dose of a twin lamb drench, 100ml of calcium in 5 places and gave 7ml of alamycin LA as the scour put me towards thinking it was something else bacterial not twin lamb....

 

[Mc115reed]

Both ewes are up this morning still walking stiff and only eating haylage but that's not a bad thing if they've pigged out on corn....