Treatment starts with treating any systemic disease.
Treating laminitis in sheep.
Applying pressure to various sections of the sole with the thumbs will elicit pain and help locate the pocket of infection.
It is important to trim the feet frequently.
Treatment will depend on specific circumstances but may include the following.
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Affected sheep usually recover rapidly after paring of the horn to provide dependent drainage.
It is a good idea to treat the pain with anti inflammatory to speed up the healing process.
Nutritional supplements especially magnesium and the magnesium re cresty necks.
It is ideal to treat illness and toxemia before founder can occur.
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June 24 2018 01 22 45 pm no shep the x rays were only of the ankle and knee joints but he examined her well and found nothing that indicated arthritis in any joint no clicking etc thanks for your interest.
In acute and severe laminitis diagnosis is based on the history eg grain overload and animal posture.
It is ideal to treat illness and toxemia before founder can occur.
Stop feeding all grain based feeds and pasture.
The dangers of over medicating.
Laminitis does not really occur in sheep and if it did the kindest thing would be to send it off sheep due to the way they are build and eat are not good at recovering from illness and as i have found a persistently lame sheep will always be so with any treatment only really being a sticking plaster to the underlying issue.
Diagnosing and treating the primary problem laminitis is often due to a systemic or general problem elsewhere in the.
Chronic laminitis management involves the reduction of grain from the ration avoidance of sudden ration changes and frequent corrective foot trimming to approximate a normal hoof conformation.
Treatment starts with treating any systemic disease.
Activated charcoal trimming etc.
Feed only grass hay until.
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