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How to Diagnose Watery Mouth in Lambs

Welcome back to our blog! You may have seen the recent ‘On the Hoof’ article about neonatal clostridial disease in lambs, covering lamb dysentery and pulpy kidney disease. Today, we're looking at another common neonatal condition of lambs and kids: watery mouth disease, also known as E. coli endotoxaemia.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
10/04/2025

Neonatal Clostridial Diseases in Lambs

The two most common neonatal clostridial diseases diagnosed by SRUC are lamb dysentery and pulpy kidney disease. With the intermittent supply of clostridial vaccines remaining a problem for sheep farmers, there is an increased risk of neonatal clostridial disease.…

SRUC Veterinary Services Aberdeen
28/03/2025

Sneaky Sheep Lungs!

Postmortem examination of thin cull ewes is an effective way to investigate whether Iceberg diseases such as Johne’s disease, ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA) or maedi visna (MV) are present in a flock. This can be carried out very successfully on farm, however one potential pitfall is the misdiagnosis of lung lesions based on gross examination alone.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
19/03/2025

ScotGov’s Animal Health & Welfare Interventions

Last month it was confirmed that ScotGov’s Preparing for Sustainable Farming’s Animal Health and Welfare Interventions will be continued in 2025.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
18/03/2025

On the Hoof - In the run up to lambing

Now is the time to arrange visits to check the energy and protein status of ewes lambing in March. …

SRUC Veterinary Services
18/02/2025

Schmallenberg virus and abortion sampling

We have recently confirmed abortion and or the birth of deformed lambs in several early lambing flocks due to Schmallenberg virus (SBV). SBV infection has been confirmed in flocks across the southern half of Scotland, including Dumfries & Galloway and Stirlingshire.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
31/01/2025

Schmallenberg Update

With the peak of the spring calving and lambing season approaching, we wanted to give a further update on Schmallenberg virus.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
09/03/2021

Otitis Media due to Mannheimia haemolytica in dairy calves

Otitis media is most often seen in pre-weaned calves and it is often assumed that this is pathognomonic for Mycoplasma bovis infection.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
01/03/2021

Baby its Cold Outside

Recently SRUC Veterinary Services’ Dumfries centre has examined numerous milk fed dairy calves in the PM room with the expected mix of diagnoses including scour, pneumonia, rumen drinking and navel ill.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
15/02/2021

Look out for Histophilus somni septicaemia / myocarditis

Over the last ten years, SRUC Veterinary Services has seen a steady increase in the number of Histophilus somni septicaemia cases.…

Veterinary Services
08/01/2021