[Jacob-list] polio

[R Unzicker]

About ten years ago I had a Tunis ewe lamb that began walking funny.   As she was the only ewe lamb from one of my favorite ewes, I called the vet pronto.    He suspected polio, took her to his lab overnight and began a regimented vitamin B treatment.   I brought her home two days later and continued to give her vitamin B shots.   The vet was very careful to give a specific dosage based on weight.    He gave me prefilled syringes with exact dosages.   It took about 2 weeks but she eventually did recover.   The vet said it can be caused by shock and/or a very rich diet.   Sounds like Neal and Fred know what they are talking about!  

Up to this point my experience had been that a sick sheep was a dead sheep.  But "Katrina" was special and so I decided to part  with some of my money and try to save  her.    The good news was that she survived.  The bad news was that she turned out to be one of the worst Tunis lambs I had ever raised  ( and from 2 fantastic parents).   I kept her till breeding age and decided she was not something I could in good faith sell offspring from so after all that, she  ended up at the slaughter house.    I did not  think the illness was the reason she did not turn out to be a good Tunis.   I had noticed before that she wasn't that great but I  had been waiting for years to get a ewe lamb out of this particular ewe and so just knew Katrina would blossom at some point.   (Nothing personal, Katrina Lafever!)  :-)
Royal   
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