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Clare3

  • Joined Jan 2017
Bacterial infection in dgf wethers
« on: January 11, 2017, 05:32:51 pm »
I am relatively new to keeping dgf sheep and have learnt a lot in the last year.  In December I noticed that two of my wethers had `damaged` their heads and had some small cuts on them, one had an eye infection so I had to call the vet out.  He was excellent - he shaved their heads took scrapes of the skin gave them a good wash with hibby scrub covered them in purple spray and gave them both an antibiotic injection.  The vet thought, as I did that they had been butting each other which had resulted in a bacterial infection.  He sent off skin scrapes to grow a culture to see if they had ringworm.  They had a second injection a week later and recovered very quickly.
Had the results of culture yesterday which were negative so no ring worm.  The vet also thought they could possibly have been pested by midges and called it some name which I can`t now remember and that they caused the problem and advised to keep a close eye on them coming in the summer this year.
My question - has anyone experienced this midges problem?  I think my sheep got a bacterial infection through butting - which they no longer seem to be doing since I no longer feed them creep but sugar beet cubes which I understand are lower in protein.  They are on very short grass but refuse any hay so can`t be too hungry.  Any advice gratefully received.  Clare

 

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