Background
Many of the problems relating to the health of lambs arise from the ingestion of pathogenic organisms indigenous to the lambing pens and paddocks. Other than completely cleaning out the lambing area and sterilising, only a bout of extreme cold weather can sterilise these environments, so it is vital the lamb receives protection.

In theory, maternal colostrum or an adequate replacement such as SURESTART® should provide the antibodies to protect the lamb against such infections, and in many cases do. But other organisms, particularly it seems the coliforms which cause watery mouth, sometimes evade the natural protection of colostrum.