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Author Topic: orf or something else?  (Read 1109 times)

country soul

  • Joined Feb 2010
orf or something else?
« on: April 25, 2017, 05:41:42 pm »
hello everyone
Ibeginning to think what I initially thought was orf may possiby not be.It seems not to have spread even amongst twins and the odd one which had small scabs/blisters around there lips seems to have gone within a week.
Could be be something else? The lambs are 3 -4 weeks old and are not  in any way poorly or  showing signs of not sucking etc

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: orf or something else?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2017, 05:56:38 pm »
As I understand it, lambs can get a staph. infection, which probably enters via a small breach in the skin, perhaps caused by nibbling around thistles or hawthorn.  This tends to clear quickly and doesn't get transferred to or from the ewes teats.  A spray with a/b spray may help it to dry up.

 

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