Sheep Pox

Warning: Sheep Pox is appearing in Tale 7.

Sheep pox was a fatal illness in previous tellings requiring the slaughter of all sheep in the pen. Transmission method unknown but might be from adding sick wild sheep to the pen or other lack of good sheep farming practices like under feeding.

In Tale7, sheep pox appears to work roughly how it did in Tale1. Pox can be spread by contagion, or may show up in isolated pens by random chance. Sheep in poxxed pens may not be picked up. Slaughtering sheep in a poxxed pen WILL cause an immediate contagion spread to at least the nearest sheep pens! The radius of contagion spread has not been established, but appears to be large. Starving sheep are likely to contract pox on their own, but healthy, well-fed sheep often do as well.

There is a cure!

In T7 once Advanced Animal Husbandry has been learned, Sheep Supplement can be created at a Kitchen. This will cure the sheep in a single pen of the pox.