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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: tommytacit on June 04, 2010, 03:45:13 pm

Title: soay balding
Post by: tommytacit on June 04, 2010, 03:45:13 pm

Have a small flock of soays that have lambed for the first time this year. Two of ewes are loosing all their wool around the back end, not the normal wool shedding but all the way down to the skin which they are itching with their horns, have inspected for fly strike but no signs, - any ideas?

Title: Re: soay balding
Post by: woollyval on June 04, 2010, 04:42:08 pm

Lice are most likely scrapie the least likely.....try de lousing them....Spot On is good!

Title: Re: soay balding
Post by: tommytacit on June 16, 2010, 04:59:57 pm

Thanks, gave thenm a dose at the wekend so will see what happens next.....! cheers

Title: Re: soay balding
Post by: Fleecewife on June 16, 2010, 06:30:23 pm

Sounds like perfectly normal Soay roo'ing.  They often look totally bald after that and tend to start around the rear half and neck.  The scratching could well be the normal way they rub it off.  If you take off the rest of the fleece you can have a close-up inspection to see if it is something out of the ordinary