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Texel throat

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  • 11-08-2020 7:05pm
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    iron man
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    Evening. Has anybody any cure for this. I have a shearling that got it 9 days ago. Took him to the vet. High temp. Draxin, steroids, engemician etc. Got him back eating oats, and hay then meal and fresh cut grass. I let him out this morning to the garden for an hour and he went back to square one. Had to call the vet again.. Any other cure for this apart from the lorry.. He bred well as a lamb.


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    wrangler
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    iron man wrote: »
    Evening. Has anybody any cure for this. I have a shearling that got it 9 days ago. Took him to the vet. High temp. Draxin, steroids, engemician etc. Got him back eating oats, and hay then meal and fresh cut grass. I let him out this morning to the garden for an hour and he went back to square one. Had to call the vet again.. Any other cure for this apart from the lorry.. He bred well as a lamb.

    There is no cure, there's breeders that know they're breeding Texel throat and yet still continue.
    It's around long enough for the seller of that ram to know he has it. A friend bought three texels from one breeder and everyone of them was gone in 12 mths.
    Does your ram lose his wool around his chest and belly and elsewhere, that's suppose to be a symptom too


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    iron man
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    no wool lost... its frustrating...


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    Dinzee Conlee
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    iron man wrote: »
    Evening. Has anybody any cure for this. I have a shearling that got it 9 days ago. Took him to the vet. High temp. Draxin, steroids, engemician etc. Got him back eating oats, and hay then meal and fresh cut grass. I let him out this morning to the garden for an hour and he went back to square one. Had to call the vet again.. Any other cure for this apart from the lorry.. He bred well as a lamb.

    Did you buy him? Can you get back onto the seller?


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    iron man
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭iron man


    got him a year ago... he bred very well as a lamb. was wintered inside. had him out since May and was flying until he picked this up 9 days ago...


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    wrangler
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    iron man wrote: »
    no wool lost... its frustrating...


    It wouldn't be advisable to keep ewes out of him


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    iron man
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    oh dear... I have 15... belters...


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    Sheep breeder
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    iron man wrote: »
    got him a year ago... he bred very well as a lamb. was wintered inside. had him out since May and was flying until he picked this up 9 days ago...

    He didn’t pick it up, it is in the rams breeding and the breeders know they have it and are selling it on to farmers, the texel breed has changed so much from what they were 20 years ago, with tear drops, stripping and smaller etc.


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    Jjameson
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    iron man wrote: »
    oh dear... I have 15... belters...

    If they aren’t out of texted ewes and don’t have short necks they’ll be fine. Just breed another breed to them.


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    iron man
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    Jjameson wrote:
    If they aren’t out of texted ewes and don’t have short necks they’ll be fine. Just breed another breed to them.


    these breeders must have some way of disguising it...


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    Jjameson
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    iron man wrote: »
    these breeders must have some way of disguising it...

    A bit like the big headed big legged Suffolk rams, it’s the idiot buyers paying the big bucks that are the root cause.


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    wrangler
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    iron man wrote: »
    oh dear... I have 15... belters...


    I used to always buy Texel hogget rams from Willie hutchinson in Kilkenny, the last time I went to him he had none as he had slaughtered all his hogget rams because their breeding lines had Texel throat. That was a huge financial loss for him rather than selling them around the country to catch someone out.
    That's seven or eight years ago and to say it's still around reflects badly on texel breeders


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    DJ98
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    Have a texel hogget ram here and his breathing is gone very heavy and laboured and he tries to roar its almost like his voice is gone. A neighbour described his breathing as like a lawnmower the other day (not from a farming background). Would texel throat be the cause of this? Have rang the vet and waiting on him to call back.



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    White Clover
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121879348#Comment_121879348

    Sounds like it. My Texel ram died from that on Christmas Eve. The last 2 Texel rams that I had both died from it.



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    orm0nd
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/114279842#Comment_114279842

    yep... lost a 3 year old tex x bought in as a hoggett a few weeks ago , was hoping to get the lambs out of her but wasn't to be



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    Castlekeeper
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    Jesus is that what it is? I think I have it myself these days...



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