common lamb diseases
Tetanus **. Tetanus is a common, fatal disease in sheep and goats caused by a bacterium known as Clostridium tetani. The spores of this bacterium can be found in feces, they produce a powerful toxin in open wounds, and are not affected or destroyed by disinfectants.Most often, tetanus is caused by infection of an open wound.vine Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis, or OIKC, has the common name Pink Eye. This disease affects sheep of all ages, but is more prominent in ewes than in lambs and lasts approximately three weeks. The causes of the disease are the organisms Chlamydia psittaci and Mycoplasma conjunctiviae.