sheep sore ear and dry and scabby

leoch

2 questions folks from a newish sheep farmer,,,,,i have a lamb with a sore ear its festering around the tag i sprayed it with alymicein spray but should i cut of the ear tag (if so wat is best way of doing this its a round yellow type one not unlike the cattle tags)i also noticed on a few with dry scabby bit on top of there heads or ears ,i dont have a way of dipping them (30 ram lambs) but sprayed them with alymicen aswell any help would be great thanks

148multi

A snips, talk to your vet about Cobalt deficiency.

rangler1

leoch wrote: »

2 questions folks from a newish sheep farmer,,,,,i have a lamb with a sore ear its festering around the tag i sprayed it with alymicein spray but should i cut of the ear tag (if so wat is best way of doing this its a round yellow type one not unlike the cattle tags)i also noticed on a few with dry scabby bit on top of there heads or ears ,i dont have a way of dipping them (30 ram lambs) but sprayed them with alymicen aswell any help would be great thanks

Stockholm tar is good as a disinfectant and keeps flies away, they were probably tagged when the flies were busy.
In the interest of animal welfare, you should cut out any tags that are infected and spray the ears, veterinary aluminium spray over the alamycin spray would be good and stockholm tar to keep the flies away.

Green farmer

+1 on cobalt deficiency for the scabby ears. B12 drench will clear it up. The same lads will probably have dry looking coats as well.