shepherdO
Loving the herd life
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2018
- Messages
- 127
- Reaction score
- 129
- Points
- 106
- Location
- Okanagan area of British Columbia
Okay, I spend a lot of time with my sheep on a daily basis, and I typically notice everything about them. I don't know HOW, but I seem to have missed a case of pinkeye or something similar.
I just noticed it this morning when Sabine was lagging behind the rest of the flock when we took them to their grazing spot. She seemed very discombobulated, running into the fence three times, and being extremely reluctant to follow the herd. Tonight we examined her and sure enough, runny eyes, lots of caked on goo around them, and very white and cloudy.
I'm super bummed. She did suffer from a case in the fall, but we separated her and applied that purple stuff, which cleared things up.
I am super surprised I missed this, as I assume it has to progress for several days at least to get to the cloudy eye stage? We treated her this evening and she's not with the other sheep. But that white cloudy eye scares me. I wonder if she got it from hay poking her in the eye or something like that?
Either way, if she DOES go blind from this, what are my options? At this point I know she can see fairly well, as she was tricky to catch in the pen - I'm thinking her vision at the moment is limited or fuzzy. Has anyone kept a blind ewe? Breeding? Butcher?
Thanks,
I just noticed it this morning when Sabine was lagging behind the rest of the flock when we took them to their grazing spot. She seemed very discombobulated, running into the fence three times, and being extremely reluctant to follow the herd. Tonight we examined her and sure enough, runny eyes, lots of caked on goo around them, and very white and cloudy.
I'm super bummed. She did suffer from a case in the fall, but we separated her and applied that purple stuff, which cleared things up.
I am super surprised I missed this, as I assume it has to progress for several days at least to get to the cloudy eye stage? We treated her this evening and she's not with the other sheep. But that white cloudy eye scares me. I wonder if she got it from hay poking her in the eye or something like that?
Either way, if she DOES go blind from this, what are my options? At this point I know she can see fairly well, as she was tricky to catch in the pen - I'm thinking her vision at the moment is limited or fuzzy. Has anyone kept a blind ewe? Breeding? Butcher?
Thanks,