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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kaz on August 18, 2013, 02:42:50 pm
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Checked on my sheep this morning and found one standing up but didn't want to move. Brought her down into shed to have a look as her. She didn't have a temperature, but was salivating. Called the vets, but before he arrived she started having what seemed to be mini fits and then just died. She had been fluked & wormed recently and had her yearly Heptavac P plus before lambing. Any ideas. :thinking:
We did have a spaniel on the land yesterday that killed one of our chickens, but I don't think she was anywhere near the sheep.
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Aww, Karen thats sad. Your ewe and my pig. We are both having a hard time of it :bouquet:
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Poisonous plants?
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Sounds like poison to me.
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We haven't got anything poisonous where the sheep were, had a good look around just in case, but I have never found anything on my land in the past.
I have moved all the rest and am hoping it was a one off. It's just so annoying as she was only a young ewe who we lambed for the first time this year. :(
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That's really sad kaz :sheep:
Maybe someone else will come along with ideas on what disease it might be, if not poison - we don't have much disease amongst our sheep :fc: so I'm not up to date with all the symptoms.
Was it goosepimple who lost some Ronnies and eventually found there was a small sprig of rhododendron lurking in the pasture? We once lost a ewe to rhubarb (oxalic acid) poisoning - didn't think they would be interested in it.
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Oh Karen, what a bummer......def sounds like some sort of toxic thing to me too. :hug:
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:bouquet: so sorry you have lost such a young girl. Hope you find the cause to ease your mind.
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:bouquet: really sorry to hear this :'(
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Yes, I'm also really sorry to hear about your ewe :hug:
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Checked on my sheep this morning and found one standing up but didn't want to move. Brought her down into shed to have a look as her. She didn't have a temperature, but was salivating. Called the vets, but before he arrived she started having what seemed to be mini fits and then just died. She had been fluked & wormed recently and had her yearly Heptavac P plus before lambing. Any ideas. :thinking:
We did have a spaniel on the land yesterday that killed one of our chickens, but I don't think she was anywhere near the sheep.
CCN? Have you recently moved to new grazing?
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No I haven't moved them to new grazing recently, but I have now.
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Was she still feeding her lamb(s) ? It might be hypocalcaemia, though they usually lay down with neck outstretched before the fits with that. I lost a poll dorset ewe suddenly like this in June.
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we lost a couple ewe lambs to something similar vet didnt know what it was and been on same land 8 years never found any poisionous plants ect in whole time but checked again, seems abit odd as vet wont sure either, New virus or something maybe????????????
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So sorry to hear this kaz :bouquet:
You mentioned that she
didn't want to move.
Isn't this one of the key symptoms of Schmallenberg?
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So sorry to hear this kaz :bouquet:
You mentioned that she
didn't want to move.
Isn't this one of the key symptoms of Schmallenberg?
But could also have been blind... hence my thought of CCN. Can happen any time and they do go blind quite quickly and then die quite quickly too...