Clodagh
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Why does their fleece fall out after having penicillin?
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Moobli
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Does it?! I will have to ask hubby the answer to that one.
Errin Paddywack
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Can't say I have ever noticed that with mine. If it did happen I would assume that the fleece loss was to do with what was wrong with them.
Moobli
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Hubby says it does happen! He can’t say for sure why it happens but he says that sheep that are down in condition often throw their fleece when they start to thrive so it might also be linked to that.
Clodagh
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Well we first saw it in a sheep that had a difficult birth and was lying in the field with wool all around her. Then next door’s old ewe was poorly and was moulting like a good ‘un. He said penicillin makes the fleece fall out, so I wondered why.
twiggy2
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I have been told that a sheep that has had poor health throws the fleece when in good health again as they have the strength to replace a bad fleece with a good one, I am not sure if it is the antibiotics so much as the return to health