It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. WATERY mouth disease in young lambs is a significant loss to many sheep farmers and costs the industry dearly. In this article, supplied by the ...

Lesley Bingham, farm vet at Westpoint Vets in the South West gives advice on dealing with watery mouth in lambs. Q Each year I end up with a few lambs going down with wet mouth. The lambing area ...

Watery mouth is a bacterial infection caused by E coli which affects new born lambs. The bacteria is found in the environment and lambs are born with no immunity against it. When infection occurs ...

As lambing time draws closer, sheep farmers have been urged to make sure they have a plan to manage and combat watery mouth, a common disease of new born lambs, in place. The call came in response ...

As lambing is now drawing to a close I have just 20 ewes left to lamb from just under 1,100. It was a busy few weeks but generally speaking it went fairly well. I did, however, get a lot of ...

WATERY mouth disease in young lambs is a significant loss to many sheep farmers and costs the industry dearly. In this article, supplied by the National Animal Diseases Information Service, we look at ...