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Ewe with swollen ears

  • 12-07-2019 12:57pm
    #1
    flos1964
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    All right ....have a ewe with massively swollen ears...so swollen i cant even examine the inside of ear...any ideas please.


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  • #2
    wrangler
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    flos1964 wrote: »
    All right ....have a ewe with massively swollen ears...so swollen i cant even examine the inside of ear...any ideas please.

    Photosensitisation can cause swelling in the head and ears, easy enough treated, probably better to get a proper diagnoses though


  • #3
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    wrangler wrote: »
    Photosensitisation can cause swelling in the head and ears, easy enough treated, probably better to get a proper diagnoses though

    Thank you...vet over phone prescribed two separate shots for 3 days...never seen ears so swollen...cant even get into inner ear to examine...thanks Wrangler.


  • #4
    ganmo
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    If you can get her into a shed and put some cheno unction or vaseline on the ears to keep the skin soft


  • #5
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    ganmo wrote: »
    If you can get her into a shed and put some cheno unction or vaseline on the ears to keep the skin soft

    Thanks ganmo..


  • #6
    wrangler
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    flos1964 wrote: »
    Thanks ganmo..

    She'd be better in a shed as it's a reaction to sun and tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher


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  • #7
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    wrangler wrote: »
    She'd be better in a shed as it's a reaction to sun and tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher

    Going to do that now... she seems in ok form so thats good...thanks very much for help.


  • #8
    Lambman
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    Photosensitation happens from eating a plant or liver damage more so than only sunlight itself I'd check what plants are in the field and look about dosing if it turns out till be liver damage.


  • #9
    orm0nd
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    Swollen ears can also be caused by fly and insect bites. Unlikely it'd happen to both ears though.


  • #10
    wrangler
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    Lambman wrote: »
    Photosensitation happens from eating a plant or liver damage more so than only sunlight itself I'd check what plants are in the field and look about dosing if it turns out till be liver damage.
    ,

    Maybe if you had an outbreak of it but with only an isolated case it's the ewes own allergy, We treat it that way anyway and use steroid injection which always cures it which would confirm allrgy


  • #11
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    wrangler wrote: »
    ,

    Maybe if you had an outbreak of it but with only an isolated case it's the ewes own allergy, We treat it that way anyway and use steroid injection which always cures it which would confirm allrgy

    She is the only one allright...ill get the vet to give her a steroid injection tomorrow...she is still in good old form...thanks again everybody for all the help...


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  • #12
    wrangler
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    flos1964 wrote: »
    She is the only one allright...ill get the vet to give her a steroid injection tomorrow...she is still in good old form...thanks again everybody for all the help...

    I wouldn't be surprised if there was a steroid/cortisone in one of the bottles he gave you.
    Is she not improving


  • #13
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    wrangler wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised if there was a steroid/cortisone in one of the bottles he gave you.
    Is she not improving

    Sorry did not see this post till now...she is eating and chewing the cud away so she seems in good form...the shots she received were given to me by the girl in the office so ill make sure what they were this morning ...thanks again.


  • #14
    flos1964
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    wrangler wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised if there was a steroid/cortisone in one of the bottles he gave you.
    Is she not improving

    Yes you were 100% correct...10 mls a day for 3 days and now 3 mls a day for 3 days...eating and chewing cud and good form...she was a quintuplet so im fond of her...anyway thanks very much for all advice everybody.


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