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Ewe on her side

  • 19-08-2012 11:57am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭


    Found a ewe this morning on her side kicking, though she was on her back initially but its definitely not the problem. she's in perfect health, weaned a month. definitely not fluke either

    i think it could be tapeworms or something that has got to the brain, will bring her to vet in morning

    has any one any suggestions?

    if it is a tapeworm that has bored to the brain, is there anything i can do at this stage?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭Arrow in the Knee


    Another One!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    Yip, I think its same symptoms too. Am now wondering could it be something she ate, the field was sprayed about 6 weeks ago

    if she ate dead ragwort which I don’t think she did, what would the symptoms be?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    razor8 wrote: »
    Yip, I think its same symptoms too. Am now wondering could it be something she ate, the field was sprayed about 6 weeks ago

    if she ate dead ragwort which I don’t think she did, what would the symptoms be?

    Chronic liver damage, weight loss then death. It would be very rare for a sheep to eat ragworth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    razor8 wrote: »
    Found a ewe this morning on her side kicking, though she was on her back initially but its definitely not the problem. she's in perfect health, weaned a month. definitely not fluke either

    i think it could be tapeworms or something that has got to the brain, will bring her to vet in morning

    has any one any suggestions?

    if it is a tapeworm that has bored to the brain, is there anything i can do at this stage?

    Sorry to hear Razor.
    Not sure if it would help, but if 'twas me I'd throw a few mineral buckets in with them. You'll prob never know if it'll help, it might not, but for small money twould make me feel I was doing something anyways.

    How did that sheep the last day do?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Did the last ewe survive?

    Did you find out what was wrong with her?

    If it was me I'd be getting on to my vet fairly lively to get some tests done to see if I could prevent any more ewes from getting it.

    "1 is unlucky, 2 is a epidemic"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    After 3 weeks of hand feeding her and no signs of improvement I got the local knackery to put her down last Wednesday, then yesterday I find another one with the same symptoms. I rang vet this morning and he's as baffled as me. It’s really a guessing game. He gave me a few injections and said if she doesnt improve bring her to Sligo Reg Vet Centre and get them to check her

    I must be some kind of poisoning, could be ferns maybe, it cause brain damage

    I just hoped someone else may have had a similar situation and a solution but i'm not hopeful for this one either


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    Sorry to hear Razor.
    Not sure if it would help, but if 'twas me I'd throw a few mineral buckets in with them. You'll prob never know if it'll help, it might not, but for small money twould make me feel I was doing something anyways.

    How did that sheep the last day do?

    It’s definitely not a deficiency or the like. The spraying is too much of a coincidence for me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    razor8 wrote: »
    It’s definitely not a deficiency or the like. The spraying is too much of a coincidence for me

    Possibly yeah, I guess when you have more than one, and if that's the only change - it does point to it...
    I hope you figure it out. Let us know the outcome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭bb12


    foxylock wrote: »
    Chronic liver damage, weight loss then death. It would be very rare for a sheep to eat ragworth.

    sheep eat ragworth all the time which is why you'll rarely see adult ragworth growing in sheep grazed fields. but they wouldn't die instantly from it. it takes a good while for the toxins to build up in the liver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    razor8 wrote: »
    After 3 weeks of hand feeding her and no signs of improvement I got the local knackery to put her down last Wednesday, then yesterday I find another one with the same symptoms. I rang vet this morning and he's as baffled as me. It’s really a guessing game. He gave me a few injections and said if she doesnt improve bring her to Sligo Reg Vet Centre and get them to check her

    I must be some kind of poisoning, could be ferns maybe, it cause brain damage

    I just hoped someone else may have had a similar situation and a solution but i'm not hopeful for this one either


    ok after nearly starting ww3 in your other thread, am almost afraid to post here however

    Fluke ? weeds.. minerals.. (at this stage the vet should have taken bloods)

    were they covered with 8 in 1 vaccine ?

    if possible I would move them from that field and put out some mineral buckets ( if nothing else it might stop them eating the offending weed)


    how many sheep are in the bunch ?

    the first 1 was on her back & I suspected brain damage maybe cos of the blood supply (oxygen) to the brain been restricted, however since this 1 was on her side ???

    sorry if this doesn;t make sense muti tasking & in a hurry will check back later

    Good luck with them


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    snowman707 wrote: »
    ok after nearly starting ww3 in your other thread, am almost afraid to post here however

    Fluke ? weeds.. minerals.. (at this stage the vet should have taken bloods)

    were they covered with 8 in 1 vaccine ?

    if possible I would move them from that field and put out some mineral buckets ( if nothing else it might stop them eating the offending weed)


    how many sheep are in the bunch ?

    the first 1 was on her back & I suspected brain damage maybe cos of the blood supply (oxygen) to the brain been restricted, however since this 1 was on her side ???

    sorry if this doesn;t make sense muti tasking & in a hurry will check back later

    Good luck with them

    definitely not fluke, shes not weak or anything like that, she as fat as a pig, so hardly minerals either. to look at her she is perfectly healthy, i am at sheep 20 years so if it was the above i would know by now

    i have moved them, was only 15 in this bunch

    the first one must of got the brain damage first and then ended up on her back by the looks of it, this one can stand up if i keep my knee to her, but shes all over the place. she sit up and look normal for about an hour and than fall to her side again


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    maybe you are correct about gid ( tape worm ) be no harm to cover the rest of them just in case


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Any update Razor?
    I hope things are improving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    laid to rest at Sligo RVL today, should have news tomorrow!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    any update on pm ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭razor8


    rang yesterday, they said can take up to 10 days so mon or tue maybe


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