What's missing form the soil

[bazza3034]

Hi there. I been using hep p on lambs for years but as I use to different blocks of land I have a lot more issues with pasturrall pneumonia on one block that the other any ideas what bacterial would be more prevalent in one soil type that the other

 

[M-J-G]

Are there sheep next door to them on the new land?

 

[bazza3034]

No

 

[ringi]

Have your vet done blood tests to if any trace elements are low?

(I assume the sheep are ramdom allocated to the blocks so it is only the blocks that are different.)

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Hi there. I been using hep p on lambs for years but as I use to different blocks of land I have a lot more issues with pasturrall pneumonia on one block that the other any ideas what bacterial would be more prevalent in one soil type that the other

I was at a meeting where a vet who specialises in PM’s was speaking. Prior to that I always assumed pasturella was a ‘bug “ picked up from the ground. However it is actually caused by bacteria in the throat and tonsils of sheep which trigger pasturella when there are periods of stress. That’s why it’s associated with big temperature fluctuations, but any stress such as moving, mixing, TE deficiencies etc can trigger it. There’s a good explanation here.

https://www.sruc.ac.uk/veterinary-surveillance-blog/systemic-pasteurellosis-in-lambs/#:~:text=Systemic Pasteurellosis is caused by,lambs between September and December.

 

[sheepdogtrail]

How soon after they have been moved to the trouble causing paddock before they get sick? What % of the group gets pneumonia? How old are the sheep that have been moved? Did they get drenched prior to the move? If so, how long before?

What type of seed heads in forage are present? Is your water source clean of debris?

Do your sheep share a fence line with other mammals?

 

[bazza3034]

How soon after they have been moved to the trouble causing paddock before they get sick? What % of the group gets pneumonia? How old are the sheep that have been moved? Did they get drenched prior to the move? If so, how long before?

What type of seed heads in forage are present? Is your water source clean of debris?

Do your sheep share a fence line with other mammals?

Well i weaned 3 weeks ago this wednesday they were done with a mineral drench second jag of oivipast brovexin amd a worm drench so they were on the home farm for ten days then afew of the. Mothers took pnemonia so moved the mothers of the out farm and put the lambs to the out farm checked them this morning one lamb dead an d another sick so treated it with anitibotics so im worried now and im worried every day i go up to check broughr the mothers back to the. Home fsrm and no incident since