The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Remy on July 30, 2014, 10:04:39 pm
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One of my Gotlands is looking very lame and when I investigated the areas between both his front 'toes' is wet and pale looking, with flies attracted to it. Is this scald? Although I thought scald was related to wet conditions and his field is dry. I take it treatment is with Teramycin?
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Oh there is no end to the conditions in which they can get scald when they are determined ::)
Check behind the hooves too, at the back of the foot - sometimes they get a sore patch developing there, and just wet/grey between the toes.
And yes, Terramycin spray :)
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My Gotlands are masters in getting scald... one of the reasons I am thinking that my love affair with Gotlands may be over sometime soon... :-\
If seriously unsound an injection of Alamycin LA may improve things for a bit.
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I have to say the Gotlands seem to get lame way more than the others! Maybe not suited to lowland pasture?
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Hi, I found this video which gives a great summary of the different types of diseases/ailments that can cause lameness. You may find it useful in assisting with your sheep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhT2QVclhUM&list=PLtImzmj0GoB6DSNah04Qo45eFJzNF6t6-&index=3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhT2QVclhUM&list=PLtImzmj0GoB6DSNah04Qo45eFJzNF6t6-&index=3)
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Like paper cuts between the toes, must be very painful for them, we don't see much of it here but the many well worn tracks across the fields point to why :) Terramycin spray if it does crop up
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Just watch for fly strike as one of mine just died from this as the fly's must have laid eggs on the foot and the maggots got up over the shoulder so had to have her put down as was in pain:((( I had terramycined her foot and jabbed her but Fly Strike and Scald is rife at the moment to vet said.
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Is it treated with a fly strike prevention? There have been lots of cases of flystrike this year starting with scald in a foot attracting the flies.
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I wouldn't have thought that scald in itself attracts flies - it is when it goes on to foot rot (which is smelly!) that attracts the flies.
I have only ever once had flystrike in a lamb's foot - and couldn't work out how it started... :-\ I just treated it.
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I have to say the Gotlands seem to get lame way more than the others! Maybe not suited to lowland pasture?
I am not sure they are suited to the wet climate in Britain - aren't they housed over-winter in Sweden where they come from?
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I wouldn't have thought that scald in itself attracts flies
Yes, it does.