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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Sheep zits!
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2013, 06:46:18 pm »

The one where the position of the lumps is important is CLA - Caseous Lymphadenitis ; you can read about it on the NADIS site here
That's why I asked Amanda whether it was big lumps at the angle of the jaw  ;)

Abcesses at the site of vaccination are common, even if full aseptic precautions are used.
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Sheep zits!
« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2013, 04:14:26 pm »
Lumps at vaccination site are generally worse on younger sheep (thinner skin) and if the vaccine is in a thick, oily adjuvant (carrier medium).  Nearly all my shearlings had one when I vaccinated with Footvax but fortunately it worked so well I only had to do it once and haven't seen it since 2007.

 

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