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Case report: failure of passive transfer and neonatal infections in a cohort of lambs

Published:2020-03-02 Issue:2 Volume:25 Page:86-91
ISSN:2053-0862
Container-title:Livestock
language:en
Short-container-title:Livestock

Author:

Hamer Kim¹,Busin Valentina²,Sargison Neil³

Affiliation:

1. University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Easter Bush Veterinary 5 Centre, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland EH25 9RG 6

2. University of Glasgow, School of Veterinary Medicine, Garscube Estate, Glasgow, Scotland, 13 G61 1QH

3. The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, 9 Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, EH25 9RG 10

Abstract

This case report details an outbreak of neonatal lamb deaths, in which 84 of the 1203 potential lambs (from scanning) died and 70 developed septic polyarthritis. Investigation of the Scottish lowland flock of 650 breeding ewes revealed good lambing-time hygiene; poor ewe nutrition was suspected to have led to poor colostrum quality or quantity, resulting in failure of passive transfer of immunity in lambs. Ewe body condition at lambing was poor, with low blood urea nitrogen and albumin levels in pre-lambing ewe metabolic blood profiles.

Publisher

Mark Allen Group

Link

http://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.12968/live.2020.25.2.86

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