Thanks much Barbara. This will most likely give the owner enough confidence to at least start using it orally.
Trem ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Liles To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 9:00 AM Subject: Re: CS>Sick sheep Trem, I have used CS mixed with milk replica for calves who already had the scours. It helped the scours. One calf had a respiratory infection so we put him on IV CS, but started him on oral. Both calves lived to become ground round! In speaking with a vet about giving oral CS to a rumen, he said a severe infection was more of a threat, but then he did add that the gut flora might need adjusting with one of the multitude of products available. On our farm we mix it with the horse water periodically and have had a calf drink some occasionally. No ill effects. Just my opinion, but having worked in veterinary medicine for eons, we generally try to address the original problem and be supportive of secondary issues. I don't think sheep tolerate high temps as well as most animals. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Dudley To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 8:41 PM Subject: Re: CS>Sick sheep IV might be the best course. And if you could put an ultrasonic humidifer with CS in it, it might make it into the lungs if pneumonia is prescent. Marshall Trem wrote: Hi List, Our neighbor has a lamb about 6 months old that is running a fever of 105 F.and the fever is not responding to antibiotics. Its most significant symptom is the fever and lethargy. The fever was up to 107 F. It has been sick for 5 days and getting antibiotics for 4 days. The vet thinks it is an enterococcus or maybe pneumonia but no usual pneumonia symptoms are present. The digestive symptoms that accompany enterococcus infection are not present either. The stool was initially loose and had mucous when the antibiotics were first started but has since normalized. We have offered CS to her but she is worried about the rumen being compromised. Does anyone have any direct experience with giving CS to sheep? Thanks folks. Trem
