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Erysipelas & Non-foot related lameness C S Parker BVM& S DBR MRCVS Scarsdale Veterinary Hospital Derby.

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1 Erysipelas & Non-foot related lameness C S Parker BVM& S DBR MRCVS Scarsdale Veterinary Hospital Derby

2 What is lameness 4 Inco-ordination 4 Stiffness 4 True lameness

3 Inco-ordination 4 Gid 4 Scrapie 4 Louping ill 4 swayback 4 spinal abscess

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5 Swayback- Enzootic ataxia 4 Diagnosed previously? 4 No copper fed 4 mild winter 4 improved grazing

6 Delayed swayback 4 Lambs few weeks old 4 weak rather than lame 4 treatment.

7 Stiffness 4 White muscle disease 4 Rickets/osteomalacia

8 White muscle disease 4 Se deficiency 4 birth - 6 months 4 collapse when driven 4 tiger hearts 4 GSHPX

9 osteodystrophy 4 Diseases of bone development or metabolism 4 rickets 4 osteomalacia

10 Erysipelas - clinical signs 4 Sheep difficulty rising 4 lameness and pyrexia 4 morbidity up to 40%several joints, knee elbow hock & stifle 4 chronic arthritis may develop, culls etc

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13 Erysipelas - spread 4 Can survive months away from host 4 lives in faecal matter, particularly if cold

14 Post dipping Erysipelas 4 2- 7 days post dipping 4 80% morbidity 4 lesions restricted to lower leg 4 foot feels hot, coronary band swollen

15 Lameness- arthritis 4 Age?

16 Joint ill 4 Young lambs 4 swollen joints 4 treatment/ 4 prevention?

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18 Other arthritis conditions

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