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==Control==
==Control==
'''Good management practices''' are vital, i.e. maintaining '''hygiene''' in lambing pens and holding pens, ensuring '''colostrum intake and monitoring ewe health and production'''. It may be beneficial to consider fostering lambs from large litters of three or more.
'''Good management practices''' are vital, i.e. maintaining '''hygiene''' in lambing pens and holding pens by regularly disinfecting between batches, ensuring '''colostrum intake and monitoring ewe health and production'''. It may be beneficial to consider fostering lambs from large litters of three or more.
Scanning and '''appropriate management of pregnant ewes''' to ensure adequate birthweights of lambs will also help to minimise prevalence.
Scanning and '''appropriate management of pregnant ewes''' to ensure adequate birthweights of lambs will also help to minimise prevalence.
'''Antibiotics can be used prophylactically''' on farms where watery mouth is a problem but this should not be undertaken without consideration of '''resistance''' issues. Prevention via hygiene and biosecurity is preferred.
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