[Kitchen Cottage]

One of my sheep has liquid scours, I noticed it when I came back from work.  She was fine this morning.  She ate her dinner but seem lethargic later on.  I've put her in deep straw with another sheep for company and she's had honey and water for energy.....

just wait and she what she's like in the morning?     any views would be gratefully received. 

[zarzar]

  Hi have you had a worm count done recently we just had ours done as a few getting scours but all clear but are on fresh grass, as we lost 2 lambs begining of week all seemed fine night before but they where clear of worms and now baffled  our vets. but worth having a worm count done just in case.

[Kitchen Cottage]

I haven't had a worm count done, but they've been wormed recently and I've not noticed any worms.  However, when this lot came (supposedly having been wormed) two did have worms so I have infected my nice worm free field.... 

[zarzar]

I was told to leave them on fields already grazed by sheep a couple weeks after worming then to a ungrazed field so our field divided up into 7 paddocks to rotate them, have you got anywhere they could go that hasnt been grazed for awhile

[Blinkers]

Liver Fluke?

[Pedwardine]

Test for Cocci. It can happen so quick and can end dreadfully. Really watery scours is a bad sign. Hope it's not and    for you.

[firther]

give a shot of allamicing(not spelt right )   cheaper than calling vet out and that stuff works wonders

[Pedwardine]

We gave Noradin injections for suspected cocci with very good results.

[Foobar]

give a shot of allamicing(not spelt right )   cheaper than calling vet out and that stuff works wonders

Alamycin?

[Kitchen Cottage]

she is dead this morning.....

[Anke]

she is dead this morning.....

Enterotoxeamia? Was she up to date with her Heptavac?

[ZaktheLad]

Really sorry to hear this news      Have you had them long and did the vendor Heptavac their sheep? 

[Pedwardine]

Oh goodness. So sorry and sad to hear that. Sounds like it may have been Cocci though there are a wealth of other nasty ailments I haven't had the joy to experience yet. PM perhaps for your own peace of mind?

[Anke]

Oh goodness. So sorry and sad to hear that. Sounds like it may have been Cocci though there are a wealth of other nasty ailments I haven't had the joy to experience yet. PM perhaps for your own peace of mind?

I would have thought that cocci in an adult sheep is really, really rare - after all the bugs are around in the soil all the time and it's usually lambs that get ill with cocci as their system is not used to them yet and so they haven't built up an immunity.
 
It is also almost impossible to confirm coccidiosis, as even normal and healthy ewes have a high amount of coccidia in their systems, only a specific test to distinguish between the good ones and the bad ones would make a diagnosis possible.
 
I also wouldn't have thought that death would be that quick, I have a couple of goat kids every year that keep coming down with Coccii a few times until they are 6 months old, and even though they have scours they are otherwise bright and breezy.

[Marches Farmer]

Dodgy time of year this.  A benign summer is giving way to wetter and colder weather, interspersed with the occasional warm day.