Orf advise.......please

roosky

Hi all,

I discoveder yesterday some my ewe lambs have orf.....they are 4 weeks from lambing.

Few questions?
Can/ should i treat the ones with visible orf or should i treat the flock......or any?

Can i use scabivax on the ewes the way i use 10 in 1 and it passes to the lambs in beastins

Is it too close to lambing to vaccinate now

I plan to vaccinate the lambs when they are born but will the ewe lambs pass it to them before this and whats the chances of it speeading to their tits...


Any advice greatly appreciated,

arctictree

Mine had it bad a few weeks ago. I brought them in a couple of weeks after I noticed it and it had all cleared up.

davidk1394

Have you many ewes with it ?? We had a bad case of it 2 years ago with lambs under ewes. Nasty disease. What we used was an orficide spray. I cant think of the name of it but it's pink in colour. We also used raw formaline, its tough but very effective. We got an old brush for dishes and dipped it in the formaline and rubbed the lambs mouth until the scab is broken then sprayed the orficed spray. Repeated it 2 weeks later and it was all gone by the end of the month. With in lamb ewes a lot of handling wouldn't do them any good.

ganmo

davidk1394 wrote: »

Have you many ewes with it ?? We had a bad case of it 2 years ago with lambs under ewes. Nasty disease. What we used was an orficide spray. I cant think of the name of it but it's pink in colour. We also used raw formaline, its tough but very effective. We got an old brush for dishes and dipped it in the formaline and rubbed the lambs mouth until the scab is broken then sprayed the orficed spray. Repeated it 2 weeks later and it was all gone by the end of the month. With in lamb ewes a lot of handling wouldn't do them any good.

Raw formalin! Jasus that couldn't of been nice!

davidk1394

ganmo wrote: »

Raw formalin! Jasus that couldn't of been nice!

I felt sorry for the lambs but within a few days there was lambs cured.. we had a serious problem with thistles that year and that was the cause of the orf

hellolad

Bit more expensive but we had a big problem with orf started using brinicombe orf buckets great job

ganmo

davidk1394 wrote: »

I felt sorry for the lambs but within a few days there was lambs cured.. we had a serious problem with thistles that year and that was the cause of the orf

I was thinking of you!
i remember using it in a footbath in a shed and it cut the nostrils off me

roosky

Ya so about 15 ewe lambs have it too close to lanb to treat anyone know the name of the treatment

rangler1

roosky wrote: »

Ya so about 15 ewe lambs have it too close to lanb to treat anyone know the name of the treatment

Scabivax is the name of the vaccine and it's not recommeded to use it within 7 weeks of lambing.
I had orf in the lambs last year and I just sprayed the mouths of those that were bad with alamycin spray and injected with tetrycycline,. but most of them got over it themselves.
I'm going to use scabivax this year at a week old to try to get rid of it off the farm

roosky

rangler1 wrote:

Scabivax is the name of the vaccine and it's not recommeded to use it within 7 weeks of lambing. I had orf in the lambs last year and I just sprayed the mouths of those that were bad with alamycin spray and injected with tetrycycline,. but most of them got over it themselves. I'm going to use scabivax this year at a week old to try to get rid of it off the farm

From what i have read that is the best approach....is the alamycin any use seeing as orf is a virus.....also is there any proper orf treatment

Zoo4m8

Ovaloids..(google them) have never used anything else, work well. No hassle to use.

rangler1

roosky wrote: »

From what i have read that is the best approach....is the alamycin any use seeing as orf is a virus.....also is there any proper orf treatment

Alamycin doesn't cure the orf . Orf is like a flu, it'll take it's course, but if the lumps on their mouths tear and get infected, alamycin helps to clear the secondary infection.
Hundreds of my lambs got it last year, but i had to treat only about ten to fifteen. Thistles etc are what causes the mouths to get torn, or if they;re short of grass and they have to graze the ditches.
Like the flu, it puts them in bad form and destroys the thrive

orm0nd

experiencing the worst doses of orf presently on lambs indoors on a feeder

ewe was rearing 3 lambs (as she did last year) & got mastisis on 1 spin, pulled off the lambs & put on feeder & 3 weeks later they develop orf, 10 lambs in the batch , #1 other showing very mild

checking the ewe when drawing the spin showed she had scabs

was told by a seasoned sheep farmer many years ago that ewes are carriers and lambs pick up the virus when suckling, like most viruses some will react whilst others will have immunity,

@rangler it arrears it can lie dormant in soil for decades & suddenly resurrect .. very harm to get rid off.

razor8

orm0nd wrote: »

experiencing the worst doses of orf presently on lambs indoors on a feeder

ewe was rearing 3 lambs (as she did last year) & got mastisis on 1 spin, pulled off the lambs & put on feeder & 3 weeks later they develop orf, 10 lambs in the batch , #1 other showing very mild

checking the ewe when drawing the spin showed she had scabs

was told by a seasoned sheep farmer many years ago that ewes are carriers and lambs pick up the virus when suckling, like most viruses some will react whilst others will have immunity,

@rangler it arrears it can lie dormant in soil for decades & suddenly resurrect .. very harm to get rid off.

I would be very careful you don't get it yourself off either ewes or lambs, my brother got it on his hand and took ages to go away, nasty thing

using scabivax here for years after torment treating lambs and never have issues apart from an odd late lamb that missed vaccination