The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Heather Fullwood on May 26, 2015, 06:26:10 am
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Has anyone had any dealings with this please.....and what was your outcome.
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Heard of it once, don't know what was given, but the sheep,in question survived.
Does the vet say its meningitis ?
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Yes.... Trauma induced meningitis.
Has had anitibiotics and is on painkillers and high energy paste. Am at moment on two to three hrly watch where i am bottle feeding a weak warm milk drink.
She is depressed and losing condition, but is quite active and walks around in her pen during the day, and in the kitchen during the night.
Vet says there is a chance she could make a full recovery, but there is also a chance she could end up blind and or brain damaged. I will be making the humane decision if this happens, but i must also give her the chance of the full recovery
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Aww hope all goes well and she improves, do you have a little companion for her, that may perk her up some.
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And also how old is she, put a little sweet hay in with her for her to mouthe/nibble x
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We lost something like 15 pet lambs to it this year. Vet basically told us once they show the symptoms its normally in the brain and the best solution is to put them down. We did try treating, as much as anything to stop it spreading. Gave them a ridicuously expensive antibiotic, twin lamb treatments were also suggested, vit B1 in case it was vitamin related and in the end it was a waste of time. Some picked up for a day and then fitted and died, others walked around with funny gaits as it was affecting their spines and then died. The ones we treated and those we didn't followed the same pattern. Given the choice again I would put down straight away. I also believe it can be quite contagious. We jabbed everything in that area in the end to try as I was getting a bad back from picking up bodies.
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Just studying now and it can be created after a bout of e coli. Anyway thought id paste this nz thread, I don't know what happened to the lamb in question but the info in the thread may be helpful x
http://www.lifestyleblock.co.nz/lsb-forum/showthread.php?t=31078 (http://www.lifestyleblock.co.nz/lsb-forum/showthread.php?t=31078)
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i had a lamb get it, he went down really quickly then we took him the vet and they put him on a course of stuff, he started to get better then a week later we found him dead, he was star gazing, wouldnt really walk and lay down most of the time.
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I've had it in sheep and in a couple of calves. Our's was caused by Listeria from the haylage. If caught early enough, ie as soon as you notice the animal's not quite right, then an injection of tetracycline will cure it. If you wait a day or so to see if the animal will recover on its own then the chances are not so good. I've nursed animals for a month and then had them die. So I now reckon that if they don't recover in the first week then you're best putting them down.