The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Harebell on January 13, 2014, 12:25:40 pm
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Hello all,
I bought 5 pedigree Wiltshire Horn ewe lambs a couple of months ago, they live with some of my home bred Wilt ewes and ewe lambs. One of the ewe lambs has had a bit of a mucky bum and grass stains on her lower lip for some time, which seems to have become a bit worse recently. She is alert, eating and cudding fine it seems, I've also seen her using the nutritional lick I put out for them recently. She was drenched with Combinex about two weeks ago. Could it still be worms?
None of the other sheep have mucky bums or a grass stained mouth. She was the least good looking of the 5 ewe lambs I bought though. I haven't had a good look at her mouth to see if she has bad teeth etc, which I thought might cause the green lower lip but would bad teeth/mouth ulcer/undershot or overshot mouth cause a sheep to have a mucky bum too?
Any ideas what might be causing this?
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I had a ewe lamb exactly the same, she had an over shot jaw. Culled it, problem sorted. She was cracking, eating fine and keeping on weight but I don't want that in my flock
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I had a ewe lamb exactly the same, she had an over shot jaw. Culled it, problem sorted. She was cracking, eating fine and keeping on weight but I don't want that in my flock
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. Yes, I'll probably cull her, I just haven't come across it before and wondered what could be causing it.
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Jaw problem likely culprit. Mucky backside may just be a coincidence. Occasionally we see a gimmer with a mucky backside when it's put on a field with much better grazing than it's been used to. Doesn't happen to the ewes.
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I think you've learned a lesson you didn't like this animal from the moment you saw her, you have to look at this sheep every day , never buy if you don't like . check her mouth first then isolate her collect a dung sample and take it to the vet for a worm count she may need wormed with a different wormer . Privately bought sheep should be wormed hopefully by the seller or by the buyer before leaving their home then isolated and wormed with a different wormer group to prevent bringing resistant worms onto your ground