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I recently came home to find an otherwise healthy looking spring ram laying on
its stomach trying to flip itself over. I tried to pick it up and it was
discovered that none of his legs worked. They were not stiff and there was no
sign of injury. He was dead an hour later. Please help.
I have a bottle jacob ram lamb it is only the size of a 6 week old but is
almost 3 months. His wool is bad and he is boney. I have wormed him etc. He
is still being bottled because of his bad health. He started getting scours
when he was about 3 weeks old and gets them periodically. They are a
Have you tried giving him some Coccidiosis medicine or antibiotics in case
there is a chronic infection causing the scours?
How about some Probios to help his digestion?
We had one ewe that did this periodically, we treated with anitboitics
whenever she got them and eventually they stopped,
If he was a big healthy lamb several mos old especially if grain fed may have
been overeating disease also known as Clostridium perfringens type D. It's a
bacterial infection. Can have your vet do a postmortem and then may want to
start vaccinating for it. Or grain less heavily.
Stephanie
