Blindness in sheep

jfh

Anyone come across this before, seems to be a virus, eye is pink around the outside and cloudy on the eyeball itself, seems to be improving with tubes of pencilian. Very contagious

Dinzee Conlee

http://www.nadis.org.uk/disease-a-z/sheep/eye-diseases-in-sheep/

Scroll down to pinkeye...

ganmo

Yes it can be torturous.
Don’t feed meal to prevent unnessecary ewe to ewe contact
If you can separate the infected from the rest of the flock it’ll help
When the eyes are weeping they are contagious

jfh

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

http://www.nadis.org.uk/disease-a-z/sheep/eye-diseases-in-sheep/

Scroll down to pinkeye...

I've seen pinkeye feeding sheep baled silage alright but never outside, it's often been windier too, hard to tell if it's the same thing, looks the same alright

brownswiss

jfh wrote: »

Anyone come across this before, seems to be a virus, eye is pink around the outside and cloudy on the eyeball itself, seems to be improving with tubes of penicillin. Very contagious

Yes had a bad outbreak last year. I think it is self curing.... runs its course. Alamycin injection is probably cheapest treatment. Treat all infected sheep if you choose that route

JustJoe7240

brownswiss wrote: »

Yes had a bad outbreak last year. I think it is self curing.... runs its course. Alamycin Aerosol is probably cheapest treatment. Treat all non infected sheep first

In to the eye? Jaysus I'd take pleasure in doing that to you to see how you like it.

Donegalforever

It is very contagious.
Any contact a sheep has with an effected sheep will catch it.

Alamycin injection is very effective in clearing it from any sheep that has it.

brownswiss

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

In to the eye? Jaysus I'd take pleasure in doing that to you to see how you like it.

.. Easy on ladin... No need for violence ... Christ you would not spray that stuff in the eyes. It is for their feet

JustJoe7240

brownswiss wrote: »

.. Easy on ladin... No need for violence ... Christ you would not spray that stuff in the eyes. It is for their feet

I was thinking that would be fairly rough.
Never heard of that method of treatment before, But every day is a school day i suppose.

Lambman

I think or hope he means squirt the alamycin from a bottle into the eye with a syringe... that's what we do here aswell as an injection off it.

wrangler

brownswiss wrote: »

.. Easy on ladin... No need for violence ... Christ you would not spray that stuff in the eyes. It is for their feet

Why did you suggest it so, you specifically referred to the aerosol

greysides

Something similar has been used but the strength is different, 0.2% compared to 3.58% for the Alamycin.





https://specialistsales.com.au/products-78/products/cattle-animal-health/terramycin-pinkeye-aerosol-125gm-oxytetracycline-hydrochloride.html

greysides

A long acting tetracycline injection is probably the best answer. While it's called Pink Eye, the various causal agents are different to cattle Pink Eye, and white injections are not indicated.

paddysdream

Had an outbreak here about a month/5 weeks ago.First time ever.
Noticed a ewe gone blind first in one lot and when I got them in had 25/30 with weeping and sore eyes.Used Tetroxy and milking cow tubes and cleared up in all bar one ewe which went blind.
Got it in a couple of bunches of lambs around the same time but not to the same extent.Perhaps 3/4 lambs in each group but maybe got on top of it quicker in them.