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Author Topic: Sick ewe - what would you do?  (Read 5963 times)

Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: Sick ewe - what would you do?
« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2015, 07:29:47 pm »
What's her teeth like?

charls

  • Joined Oct 2013
Re: Sick ewe - what would you do?
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2015, 03:16:39 pm »
No, the vet didn't suggest a vitamin drench. We did check her teeth - 6 and all in good condition. I think a chronic case of fluke is a possibility, yes (although we're not actually in a flukey area). She was a bought in sheep so we didn't have her background. Out of the three we bought including her, one is fine, and the other died from pneumonia. So I thinking perhaps their previous owners weren't quite as scrupulous about vaccinating and dosing as we are, and they may have come to us with existing problems. Who knows. But I think I'll be more choosy about where I buy in sheep from in the future!

 

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