Lamb pneumonia

Re: Lamb pneumonia

Elisabeth Knappett — Sat, 04 May 2013 09:52:22 GMT

Ditto both Michael and Wren! Metacam for me as well......

Re: Lamb pneumonia

Wren — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:04:13 GMT

I used to carry a SA bottle of Metacam for exactly the same reason.

Re: Lamb pneumonia

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:58:13 GMT

Have to agree with the good lady above me.

Just make sure they are getting lots of fluids as dehydration hugely complicates everything in lambs. They need lots of oral fluids.

(if just a day or so old could be meconium inhalation and then anything seems to help, but NSAIDS and fluids).

I may be naughty but I tend to be generous and use small animal doses or carprofen rather than the little farm animal doses (1ml/12.5kg rather than 1ml per 30kg) for baby lambs.

Re: Lamb pneumonia

Wren — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:31:32 GMT

How young are your lambs? If you can titrate the dose down Micotil used to work a treat (although you wouldn't want to open a bottle just for one lamb - I used to have an open bottle knocking around specifically for that purpose), otherwise Draxxin and Zactran are pretty effective (all under cascade). Don't forget the NSAIDs too!