Lamb dysentery

Lamb dysentery is an enterotoxemia that affects lambs in their very first days of life. It is caused by a bacteria from the same group as that of the pulpy kidney, Clostridium perfringens type B. The bacteria multiply in the newborn lamb's intestine and release toxins that destroy the intestinal wall. The intestine bleeds and necroses: hence the name dysentery. It affects vigorous, well-born lambs that suckle well. It is often the strongest lamb in a litter that leaves first. The disease generally appears in lambs born in the middle or end of the lambing period, when the premises have become loaded with microbes. The first born often pass through, the later ones pay for the accumulation. Without vaccination of sheep, losses can be repeated every year in the same sheepfolds, because the spores persist for a long time in the litter and soil.

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