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mcd

  • Joined May 2014
lamb wool peeling off
« on: June 26, 2014, 01:10:02 pm »
I have a 15 week ram lamb that was flystruck last week. Emergency clipping and crovect was used. 4 days later more flystrike discovered in the same area so more crovect applied. He is now in a shed recovering and I've applied battles maggot oil to soothe the area. The wool is now peeling off revealing bare skin which is thankfully healthy and pink. Could this be too much crovect burning it off?
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2014, 01:18:22 pm »
mcd, I can't actually answer your question but I had a lamb with flystrike last year. Her fleece peeled off around the affected area too. Her skin was also healthy and pink underneath so I think it may just be part of the healing process.
I am sure someone with more experience will be along soon and hopefully they can confirm this is the case.
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ScotsGirl

  • Joined Dec 2009
    • Wiltshire
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2014, 01:30:39 pm »
It will peel regardless of what you do. Sometimes I rub a bit of sudocrem or aloe Vera into wound and spray crovect round it if you have removed the maggots.   Keep site lubricated with cream to stop further cracking.  :fc:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2014, 03:04:25 pm »
Yep, they pretty much always peel where they've been strucken and crovected
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2014, 04:30:47 pm »
We had one struck years ago and the patch grew in white - our sheep are coloured. Easy to pick her out now  :)
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mcd

  • Joined May 2014
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2014, 04:31:12 pm »
That's good to know thanks. Thought I'd overdosed on the crovect or it was a little more serious.
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
    • Herefordshire
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2014, 05:22:40 pm »
I use Clik pour on the moment the weather warms up and the lambs are over 6 weeks old.  I prefer to use Jeyes Fluid diluted to 1 in 10 strength on any flystrike.  It cleanses the wound (though it stings a bit) and kills the maggots as well as masking their smell so further flies don't lay on the wound.
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shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2014, 05:36:05 pm »
Quote from: Rosemary on June 26, 2014, 04:30:47 pm
We had one struck years ago and the patch grew in white - our sheep are coloured. Easy to pick her out now  :)

thats interesting. with saddlesore ponies the injured area always grew back white. a sign of damage.
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Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
    • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: lamb wool peeling off
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2014, 06:28:07 pm »
Quote from: Rosemary on June 26, 2014, 04:30:47 pm
We had one struck years ago and the patch grew in white - our sheep are coloured. Easy to pick her out now  :)

Some of my brown (GG) goats have small white hair areas where the horns were burned off.
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