WATERY EYED LAMB

geros29

Hi.have a 2 or 3 day old lamb here with eyes very watery.cheeks soaked.had red eye on few ewe earlier in the year.would it be same thing?only thing is lamb is from ewe I bought in lamb few weeks ago.does it stay on the farm even though no sheep affected with red eye for few months?any help appreciated.

rangler1

geros29 wrote: »

Hi.have a 2 or 3 day old lamb here with eyes very watery.cheeks soaked.had red eye on few ewe earlier in the year.would it be same thing?only thing is lamb is from ewe I bought in lamb few weeks ago.does it stay on the farm even though no sheep affected with red eye for few months?any help appreciated.

I'd have lambs with eyelids turned in and they'd have those symptoms, look to see where the hairs are and turn them out and put 1ml of penicillin under their eyelids in case the irritation has caused an infection

Arrow in the Knee

Regularly happens here.

Seems like the eyelashs are touching the eye making it watery.

I inject the lamb under the eye with engmycin to try get the eyelashs away from the eye and then I put a few drops of Penstrep on the eye to avoid a cloudy eye.

Anybody have another technique?

ganmo

Get rid of the ewe too
its genetic

It's a pox of a thing! Better caught early

grassroot1

It might be enough to just turn the eyelids out. Might be best not to inject into the eyelids till you have seen someone else do it

rangler1

grassroot1 wrote: »

It might be enough to just turn the eyelids out. Might be best not to inject into the eyelids till you have seen someone else do it

I dribble the AB on to the eye from a syringe without a needle while holding out the eyelid and then tell him to look up, seems to work :D
A ml would be enough for both eyes, definitely better to prevent an infection

orm0nd

ganmo wrote: »

Get rid of the ewe too
its genetic

It's a pox of a thing! Better caught early

if your're lucky, unfortunately it can also be inherited from the ram.
had it a few years ago