diarrhea in new lambs

[Southern by choice]

No, just til they are 6 months. I think you said they were 3 months? Since they had no coccidia you could just do 2 doses and call it a day.
You are welcome.

 

[Robyn8]

Just wanted to give an update. My little lambs are doing much better. Their poops are firmed up. I gave the third dose if safeguard tonight and the baycox last night. I’ll give another baycox in 3 weeks and send out another fecal in a few weeks. Thanks so much for all the help!

 

[Southern by choice]

Sounds like it was predominantly a dietary change. Good to always monitor fecals when getting any new animal and with livestock quarantine minimum of 30 day-60 days optimal and treat all issues then.

Glad they are doing better. Happy day!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

That's good news. You did good.

 

[Donna R. Raybon]

New purchases need to be quarantined for at least a month. Most resistant parasites are bought with new animals. During that time they need to be dewormed at least twice and treated for coccidia, and external parasites, too. I like to use Valbazen for at least one of the dewormings because it gets tapeworms. And, for at least one deworming something that gets liver flukes. Tennessee is not known to have liver flukes, but so many Boer goats have been moved across the country in the past 20 years that it is possible we do have animals that do carry them.

Vaccinations should have been done two weeks before they were moved.... now they do not have immune response due to stress of moving. For example, you do not wean and vaccinate at same time due to this very problem of decreased immune response.

Body recognizes the vaccination within three days and begins to mount an immune response. The antibodies in blood steadily build until they peak at about fourteen days out and begin to level off. Thereafter animal has immunity.

However, if the immune response is not at peak due to things like stress of moving, poor nutrition, maternal antibody interference, etc.... then you may not have a good 'take' on the vaccination.

Also, if animal is subjected to an extremely high exposure to disease, then even vaccinated, may still succumb. Remember the animal actually CATCHES the disease, but hopefully immune system remembers how to make specific antibody and overwhelms it.

 

[tdurant]

@Southern by choice is right as usual and you don't want to let it drag on. A fecal will show Coccidia but I don't know how accurate the tests are that you will be using. They do need the shot like she says but you can treat for coccidia without doing them harm also. Corid is our medication of choice and when we needed to use it we controlled where they had access to their water and used buckets secured to a fence so we didn't have to add medication to the bigger troughs. If you do it that way you need to make it their only source of water. I don't know your pen setup so that may not even be possible. Tractor Supply in our location doesn't always have Corid but our CO-OP always does.

It is so nice to have people like you out there who are raising sheep and share your knowledge. I am one of the quiet ones who just reads and learns but does not reply. I just thought you should know how much I appreciate you, as a fellow sheep owner.