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Dans

  • Joined Jun 2012
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Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2014, 10:36:27 pm »
Did they have a look at her liver at all? Sorry you lost her.

Dans
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2014, 10:38:39 pm »
 :hug: glad you called the vet. Not the result anybody would want but at least an answer.  :hug:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2014, 08:47:36 am »
Sorry you lost her  :hug:

Thanks for sharing  :-*
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2014, 10:36:46 am »
Thank you for the tip about fluke, always learning.   :bouquet:

Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2014, 12:57:03 pm »
Pants  :hug:
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2014, 02:12:08 pm »
That's bad luck.  It's hard to know if you have a fluke problem until they start to show obvious signs and then it's generally too late. This is our year to give the sheep a white drench and we've upped the dose to fluke strength as a precaution, although we run a closed flock and haven't seen signs of it before, but then last Winter everywhere was wet.

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2014, 02:44:33 pm »
Aww, thats very sad but thanks for sharing the info on what to look for in her eyes  :hug:
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2014, 07:15:47 pm »
Rip ewe ewe,big hugs xx

shep53

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Dumfries & Galloway
Re: Gimmer looking thin and behaving oddly
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2014, 12:57:48 pm »
That's bad luck.  It's hard to know if you have a fluke problem until they start to show obvious signs and then it's generally too late. This is our year to give the sheep a white drench and we've upped the dose to fluke strength as a precaution, although we run a closed flock and haven't seen signs of it before, but then last Winter everywhere was wet.
        A white drench at fluke rate will kill adults and eggs,  at this time of year it is immatures that  kill so best to use one of the 3 flukicides

 

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