Vaginal Prolapse

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Vaginal Prolapse

• Management problem
• Over feeding roughage
• Large bales
• Obese ewes
• Short tail docking
• Respiratory

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Causes of Death

• Starvation
• Poor ewe condition
• Weak ewe or lamb
• Plugged teats
• Mastitis
• Mis-mothering
• Poor suckling

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Stillbirths/dystocia

• Symptoms of dystocia
• yellow fleece
• causes - Fat ewes, Poor hybrid vigor, large BW
• Was it truly born dead?
• Stillborns
• -infectious
• -hypoxia (observation)

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Solutions

• Condition score
• Observation
• Intercom, video camera
• Feed antibiotics
• Vaccinate against campylobacter and chlamydia
• BoSe ??????
• Assist after 30 minutes in labor
• Selection

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Pneumonia

• Causes
• poor air quality
• too many sheep
• wet bedding

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Solution

• 20 ft.2 for ewes with lambs
• Sulfa water treatment
• Improve ventilation
• Open up barn
• Use more bedding
• Pre-lambing shearing

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Antibiotics Feeding

• 60-65 mg/day
• 6 weeks prior to lambing
• Results
• 65-73 ? in lamb losses
• University of Wyoming
• S.D. State University

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Intestinal Disorders - Causes

• Wet bedding
• Stress
• Inadequate colostrum

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Newborn Management

• 1 - Colostrum intake
• minimum 2 ounces/8 pounds
• ideal 10 of BW first 24 hrs.
• 2 - Clip - Dip - Strip
• castrate and dock early
• 3 - Lambing Jugs
• 4 x 6, 5 x 5
• S 24 hr, Tw 48 hr, Tr 72 hr
• 4 - Observe often
• 5 - Check for inverted eyelids

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Mastitis Management

• Early weaning
• 60 days or less
• Dry up ewes prior to weaning
• Reduce protein
• Reduce energy
• Remove water ?

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Vaginal Prolapse

• Prevention/treatment
• Induce lambing
• Harness
• Prolapse spoon
• Suture
• Reduce roughage
• Condition score ewes
• Cull

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Infectious diseasesSoremouth

• Contagious ecthyma or Orf
• zoonotic disease
• a pox virus
• nuisance disease
• wide spread through out industry vaccinate away
  concerns

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Coccidiosis

• Parasite
• Symptoms
• diarrhea
• attacks intestinal lining
• bloody
• unthrifty
• long term poor doers

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Coccidiosis

• Management problem
• Clean water
• Clean feeders
• Environmental contamination
• Lambs 4-10 weeks of age
• weaning stress increases risk

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Coccidiosis

• Preventatives
• Bovatec
• Deccox
• Individual treatments
• Problem adequate intake via creep
• Treat environment

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Sudden death

• Causes
• white muscle disease
• coccidiosis
• pneumonia
• trauma
• enterotoxemia

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Ovine Progressive PneumoniaOPP

• Slow virus, retrovirus
• 10 of infected show symptoms
• hard bad, minimal milk flow
• arthritis in rams
• wasting, thin ewes
• method of transfer
• colostrum intake
• aerosol
• caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE)

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OPP

• Treatment None
• Becoming OPP free
• Blood test
• AGID, very specific low sensitivity
• ELISA, very sensitive but less specific
• delayed sero-conversion
• Orphan rearing and two site production

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OPP

• OPP free flocks do exist
• OPP Free Sheep Breeders Society
• Precautions
• Multiple negative tests
• Colostrum sources
• Tubing lambs

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Caseous lymphadenitis

• Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
• cheesy abscesses along the lymph system
• maybe internal or external
• unthrifty to no affect
• leading cause of chronic wasting
• carcass condemnation
• gt 25 of all ewe and ram carcasses

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Caseous lymphadenitis

• Treatment none
• Management
• Oral or external exposure
• Minimize wounds
• Shearing order
• Vaccination
• CaseBac

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Epididymitis

• Ram lambs
• Hot rations
• Responds to LA 200
• Temporary infertility

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Epididymitis

• Mature rams
• Cause Brucella Ovis
• ELISA test
• large operations
• large ram groups
• permanent reduced fertility

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Club Lamb Fungus

• Zoonotic disease
• http//www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/g1075.h
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• show lamb industry
• similar to ringworm

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Abortion Agents

• Campylobacter
• Enzootic Abortion Ewes
• Toxoplasmosis
• Cache Valley Virus
• Listeria