How long has it been since you’ve tested your rams?
Brucella ovis (brucellosis) is a sexually transmitted infection that causes the rams to be permanently sub-fertile or infertile.
As you would agree, this isn’t ideal, as we need them to help produce our lambs!
Brucellosis is a bacterial infection spread ram-to-ram, via different rams mating the same ewe.
The infection localises in the seminal vesicles (glands that produce the fluids that will turn into semen) and testes, causing inflammation or epididymitis.
If epididymitis spreads . . .
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