Check with your vet for the correct product and the way to give it. No. I rather agree with Bearfootfarm that when everyone is affected suddenly you have a feed problem.
My 12-year-old daughter saw me and said “Mom, what are you doing with a beer?” I told her I was going to give it to Hoss and that it might make him better but if it didn’t, maybe he’d die happier.I sat down next to Hoss and loaded my syringe: Two ounces of beer at a time (tricky because of the foam). I"ve seen our sheep do this, but never any discharge. ... as milk is a poor source of copper. We will incorporate the ‘beer solution’ from now on. Its easier to help when you have details. In addition to being a rich source of potassium, craft beers contain folic acid (great for vascular health) and BAfter getting Hoss back to health this fall, I had several inquiries about treating sick sheep symptoms. Weaver Leather Livestock Aluminum Adjustable Trimming Stand Head Piece. Depression and head-pressing behaviour may also occur.
Adding a fermented drink to a grain-poisoned, or bloated rumen would not be a good idea.I also would recommend that a smaller sized sheep (Hoss weighs about 200 pounds) receive less than the 12 ounces I was giving to Hoss.One more website gave a cheerful assessment of the health benefits of beer, offering the following information:As always, I want to make sure everybody knows I’m no veterinarian and that these experiences treating sick sheep symptoms are purely anecdotal and not scientific in nature. Treatment and prevention. It seems a playful movement. Check eye membranes to look for signs of anemia and hence parasites; eye membranes were nice and red, but we wormed him anyway, as he’d not been wormed since earlier in the summer.5. My sheep is lying down a lot, she is very slow in moving and won't bleat. I suggested that they try beer after relaying my experience with Hoss’s recovery. A sheep that is reluctant to get up is probably in pain.
Add to Favorites . And it seems that these situations always arise on weekends when veterinary offices aren’t open anyway.So we gave Hoss an antibiotic; we treated him for parasite species outside of the normal realm we usually see here on our farm, including meningeal worm and lungworm (just in case!) Very much appreciated. The twitching/shrugging thing seems strange, I'm not sure what's going on there.
My thought would be: When in doubt, reworm them, BUT WITH SOMETHING ELSE THIS TIME, and LA200, (I found the new LA 300...) But as always, be sure to make sure you can give to them while preggers..) I always hate offering medical advice, as that's my wife's field...A good dog may be hard to find, ...but a hard dog usually means it's been dead for a whileWith several sick all at once, I'd suspect something food related. I would probably suspect some kind of parasite first, have you wormed them lately? He’d probably have recovered a couple of days quicker!Another online resource written by Lisa Collier Cool, January 9, 2012 on the website health.yahoo.net reported:After reading these reports, I decided that beer might be the drench of choice for any sheep that is sick and off feed, with one exception: One that has eaten too much grain. I even told my husband it was probably time to get the hole dug.It was turning very frustrating because it seemed there was nothing I could do for my ram. $78.99 $ 78. Compulsive circling behaviour is commonly observed. and hubbering in the corners, But my "Blind baby" wether (yes that is his name)is also doing the same thing.Toxemia does make them droopy, but if your wether is doing it too, it's less likely.
I'm not familiar with nasal bot but since worming fixed this problem before and Bergere has seen it and the symptoms would seem to match I thinking worming is your answer. Yesterday, she was standing in the corner of the shed, her head facing the wall. Kind of a shot in the dark but the dropping heads and lack of enthusiasm sort of (and I do mean only sort of) point to pasteurella pnuemonia. Upon rising, they often defecate and stretch. "If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest." I would probably suspect some kind of parasite first, have you wormed them lately? I'm not familiar with nasal bot but since worming fixed this problem before and Bergere has seen it and the symptoms would seem to match I thinking worming is your answer. I’m not really sure where that idea came from other than I knew that to restart a rumen you have to introduce “healthy” micro-flora. ), but getting the sick animal to start eating again is an entirely different issue.
I looked him in the eye and exclaimed, “Hoss, what’s wrong?” And he just collapsed, looking as if he’d already given up and was going to soon be a dead ram. They are hanging inside the barn with heads pointed down and twitchimg their wool like to shrugg off a fly...there is no flys.