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Ewe with swollen ear

  • 10-10-2021 04:38PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭


    Noticed a ewe today with a swollen ear, it a lump 1/2 the size of a golf ball any idea what it could be



Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,626 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Ears swell wth photosynthesis but the eyes and face usually swells as well



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭drive it


    I'll get a pic later. Face seems ok will catch her later and have a closer look



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    Could it be a reaction to the tag or the tag partially pulled out from being caught in fence?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭drive it


    20211011_174940.jpg 20211011_175001.jpg 20211011_175009.jpg 20211011_175010.jpg

    Ear is warm feels soft like there's water in it. It's above the tag



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,626 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    I'd agree, leave it alone, looks like a bruise filled with blood or water. She'll probably reabsorb it herself.

    Sometimes it annoys them and they keep shaking their head and they agravate it, then you have to do something



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Had something similar in an older ewe during the summer - started with her ear, wasn’t too bad so left it alone. It got a bit worse over time and by the time I brought her into the shed her head has started to swell a small bit…

    She wasn’t off form with it, ate ration no bother. She improved rapidly inside, head was fine I can’t remember if the ear completely healed or just went back down to a smaller kinda swelling…

    I put it down to some kinda photo synthesis thing. Was surprised though, as she was 4 or 5 years old and hadn’t had any issues before. She was also brown faced and not white - for some reason I thought it affected white faced sheep more? But I think it’s some plant they eat that affects them more than anything…

    She made 150euro in the factory soon after, so I wasn’t too upset by any of it 😉🙂



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