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scour in lambs

  • 17-04-2016 10:53pm
    #1
    roosky
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    Hi all

    I noticed a lamb tonight with a scour....dont have much experience with scours in lambs so i am looking to pick your brains

    The lamb is about two weeks old fit and healthy looking and the scour is a clear mucous with a tinge of yellow.....kinda like a flem to be exact.

    And ideas what it is, how to treat and how to avoid it spreading to others


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  • #2
    razor8
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    Sounds like cocidososis, veccoxan, baycox or bovicox would cure it. Even an Antibotic like betamox would help and sometimes if the lamb is strong enough they will get better themselves depending on how bad it is


  • #3
    Lurgee
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    razor8 wrote: »
    Sounds like cocidososis, veccoxan, baycox or bovicox would cure it. Even an Antibotic like betamox would help and sometimes if the lamb is strong enough they will get better themselves depending on how bad it is

    With respect Razor, it absolutely is not coccidia. The lamb would be 3 weeks old minimum and the scour would be black or red.

    OP should contact their vet for advice and if that isn't possible the next best advice is to give extra fluids by mouth, isolate the lamb and ewe and keep him warm and watch for dehydration which is the real killer.


  • #4
    roosky
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    I would feel with him only being 14 days old today (checked the diary) ...he couldnt have gotten cocidososis or namatodirus as he is so young


  • #5
    kk.man
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    roosky wrote: »
    I would feel with him only being 14 days old today (checked the diary) ...he couldnt have gotten cocidososis or namatodirus as he is so young

    Any luck with diagnosis?
    I have something similar...lambs about a week old and out in field with the mother since 3 days old..they r lively enough


  • #6
    roosky
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    kk.man wrote:
    Any luck with diagnosis? I have something similar...lambs about a week old and out in field with the mother since 3 days old..they r lively enough


    Gave him a white dose even though i doubted it was nematadiris also gave him natural yogurt to get the gut going again and he cleared up himself after 2 days


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