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Memory Jogger
to Pin up in Lambing Shed
Treatment of common diseases at lambing
(1) Colostrum:
Require 200ml/kg over 1st 18 hours
= 1 litre per 5kg lamb
Divide into 4 feeds of 50ml per kg
per feed
1st feed as soon as possible after
birth, & certainly within 1 hour
(2) Hypothermic lambs:
(a) Mild: still able to stand but
hunched & shivering: feed as above & provide shelter
(b) Moderate: Still able to sit up
& swallow: Stomach tube colostrum (or milk)
Rewarm
slowly
(c) Severe: Unable to sit up: intraperitoneal
injection of glucose 20% at 10ml/kg
Rewarm
slowly
Stomach
tube once able to sit up
(3) Joint ill:
Treatment with routine antibiotics
rarely successful
Good results with crystapen/pangram
mixture
If lots affected injectable antibiotics
at birth may help; more colostrum; cubisan
(4) Water mouth:
Frustrating unless caught early
Antibiotics by mouth
Stomach tube glucose electrolyte solution
at 50ml/kg
Rewarm if needed
?Finadyne 0.2ml
(5) Bad lambing:
Don’t forget long acting antibiotic
e.g. 10ml for 100kg ewe ( peniciliin LA or OxytetLA)
Painkillers eg Finadyne 4ml for 100kg
ewe, 0.2ml per lamb
Aspirin by mouth e.g. 5x 300mg tablets
Stomach tube lambs straight away if
slow
? bicarb solution to lambs not holding
head up in 10 minutes
(6) Pregnancy Toxaemia: (twin lamb)
Frustrating unless caught early.
Dose 150ml oral glucose electrolyte
solution at least twice daily
Dose propylene glycol e.g. ketol 1-2x
daily
Inject 50-100ml glucose 20% under
skin or in vein
Inject 40ml calcium borogluconate
under skin 1st day
Inject B12 daily
Drench daily with bicarb (baking soda)
6 teaspoon in water, allow to stand few minutes
before drenching,
Tempt with food e.g. sugar beet, molasses,
neaps, spring grass!
Consider aborting ewe/elective caesar.
Lamb survival poor, may save ewe.
(7) Recumbent ewe: e.g. ?hypocalcaemia ?twin lamb
100ml calcium mag phos under skin
(blue top)
150ml glucose electrolyte solution by mouth
(iv: 50ml glucose 20%, 50ml calcium)
(8) Mastitis:
Strip out regularly
Injectable antibiotics e.g. Micotil
Anti inflammatories e.g. 4ml finadyne,
or 5 x 300mg aspirin
Supportive nursing & feeding.
Consider teat removal (Vet) or shoot if v sick
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