HELP....Skin coming away from lamb

derferjam

Hi

My neighbour has started his lambing season and found that when some of his lambs are born the ewe licks the skin clean from the lamb and the lamb ends up dying.
Has anyone ever heard of this and is it likely to spread to my flock as I'm not due to start my lambing season until March.
All help very much appreciated

supersean1999

And would he not of consulted a vet by now, some of the questions in this thread it's like as if a vet does not exist,

rangler1

derferjam wrote: »

Hi

My neighbour has started his lambing season and found that when some of his lambs are born the ewe licks the skin clean from the lamb and the lamb ends up dying.
Has anyone ever heard of this and is it likely to spread to my flock as I'm not due to start my lambing season until March.
All help very much appreciated

The year that schmallenberg was expected, I had lambs not fully covered with skin, but it was the way they were born, its also a symptom of schmallenberg so I got post-mortems done but it was negative, some even had the twisted limbs which is another symptom

Cran

derferjam wrote: »

Hi

My neighbour has started his lambing season and found that when some of his lambs are born the ewe licks the skin clean from the lamb and the lamb ends up dying.
Has anyone ever heard of this and is it likely to spread to my flock as I'm not due to start my lambing season until March.
All help very much appreciated

What breeds are they? There is a genetic disease that some breeds like Dropers suffer from. I know NZ test for it as its on the sheet when I send of blood samples as an option when gene marking Rams

greysides

Does this sound familiar:

Red Foot disease
lethal defect, similar to epidermolysis bullosa; seen in Scottish blackface and Welsh mountain sheep. Characterized by sloughing of hooves, limb and ear skin, conjunctiva, oral mucosa skin in lambs at 2 to 4 days of age, affects limbs, ears, tongue dorsum and conjunctiva. Separation of hoof horn exposing sensitive laminae is basis for name. Probably inherited.

Cran

greysides wrote: »

Does this sound familiar:

Red Foot disease
lethal defect, similar to epidermolysis bullosa; seen in Scottish blackface and Welsh mountain sheep. Characterized by sloughing of hooves, limb and ear skin, conjunctiva, oral mucosa skin in lambs at 2 to 4 days of age, affects limbs, ears, tongue dorsum and conjunctiva. Separation of hoof horn exposing sensitive laminae is basis for name. Probably inherited.

Jesus that sounds rough, what I was thinking off is Dermatosparaxis

derferjam

All sorts sufflock rams put to crossed everything

Cran wrote: »

What breeds are they? There is a genetic disease that some breeds like Dropers suffer from. I know NZ test for it as its on the sheet when I send of blood samples as an option when gene marking Rams

derferjam

He has been to the vet and no answers and he has also sent some away to be tested but he is getting nothing concrete I met him this evening and dreading the rest of the night.

supersean1999 wrote: »

And would he not of consulted a vet by now, some of the questions in this thread it's like as if a vet does not exist,

Username John

derferjam wrote: »

He has been to the vet and no answers and he has also sent some away to be tested but he is getting nothing concrete I met him this evening and dreading the rest of the night.

Jesus, ita a desperate way to be, opening the door of the shed afraid of what'll be there ahead of you
I have nothing to add to help, except I hope whatever it is it gets sorted ASAP.