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Came in on a flock I bought that had been trailered in a vehicle that carried a single pinkeye positive sheep for a very short time.
Months, literally, of catching sheep, trying antibiotics, both injected and topical, eye ointments some put in sheep twice a day, enough sheep with problems to have controls and test subjects for every treatment tried, sheep with eyes that went completely white, lots of red sore sheep eyes, sheep that got better and got reinfected, 3 vets stumped as to causes and treatments.
Final solution that actually worked. Catch and scrub the faces and suborbital pits of every sheep with hot water and Johnson's baby shampoo. Put panalog ointment in the suborbital pits of those with the worst symptoms (white eyes etc.). Repeat on the animals still showing symptoms 3 days later (about 6-8 sheep out of almost 100 as I recall) and only a few sheep required a third treatment.
Future solution, cull all deep pitted sheep as the shallow pits were on sheep that either never got infected or got well easily. Also discovered that the panalog may not be required as we successfully cured pinkeye when we got it again in the flock with just the face washing.
The face scrubbing can't hurt and might help. Use lots of shampoo, a clean towel for each sheep face as a washcloth and a clean one to dry the face off. Scrub the pits and behind the ears really really well. It made for a lot of laundry, some rather unhappy sheep who objected to getting wet but cured everyone (even though the pens etc were still infective as far as I know) and sure was cheap.
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Hope this helps. Please keep us posted about what you try and the results so that others can learn.
Carol
At 11:43 AM 1/8/2003 -0800, you wrote:
I've been battling pink eye in my flock since November. I'm treating infected animals with topical teramyacin, but as soon as I get one cleared up, another one gets it. Does anyone know of an effective way to treat the whole flock?Heather Sharfeddin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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