Re: [Blackbelly] a question regarding lamb deaths

2010-01-07 Thread Cecil Bearden
Sounds like enterotoxemia. There is a site for goats that has a great treatment and also good descriptions on enterotoxemia. I have brought 2 out of it. the sweet feed is too sweet for them. At that age they cannot digest the sweet feed so it goes on through the gut until it causes the

Re: [Blackbelly] a question regarding lamb deaths

2010-01-07 Thread Cecil Bearden
I might add that worms can play a big role in this. moving lambs to new environments causes stress and the parasites then quickly grow. I worm any animal that leaves here to go to new surroundings. So far none have been lost. I use oral and feed based panacur religiously . Cecil in OKla