Ewe died giving birth?

scatterbrainedlass · Apr 18, 2017

I'm not a novice but I've never se3n this before and was hoping some of the more experienced on here could shed some light on this. She was obviously lambing, a long string hanging out, a lot of turning around, laying down and getting back up so we went to do some other jobs. Came back about 2 hours later to find a lamb curled up next to her, she was dead with cleansing and blood in her mouth and a 2nd lamb was presented perfectly with the hooves showing. Still warm but the unborn lamb was dead. When my husband threw her in the pickup a lot of blood came out of her nose/mouth. He thinks she's burst a blood vessel from pushing, I think maybe her heart gave out? Any other theories?

bovine · Apr 18, 2017

I think she choked on cleansing. Have seen it in both cows and sheep

scatterbrainedlass · Apr 18, 2017

bovine said:
I think she choked on cleansing. Have seen it in both cows and sheep

Have to say it did cross my mind but it seemed a bit stupid really, and all the blood threw me a bit.

scatterbrainedlass · Apr 18, 2017

Here she is

Bones · Apr 18, 2017

scatterbrainedlass said:
Here she is

She has succeeded in her main ambition, fair play to her .

scatterbrainedlass · Apr 18, 2017

Bones said:
She has succeeded in her main ambition, fair play to her .

She could have at least given birth to the other lamb first

Downton_shep · Apr 18, 2017

Wouldn't she of needed to finish lambing before she cleansed @bovine ?

Al R · Apr 18, 2017

Heart attack from straining maybe?

Gulli · Apr 18, 2017

_sheptastic said:
Wouldn't she of needed to finish lambing before she cleansed @bovine ?

Could have just kicked the bag off the first lamb and choked on that. Tbh could have been any number of things with a sheep!

Northeastfarmer · Apr 18, 2017

Al R said:
Heart attack from straining maybe?

Don't let @bovine hear you saying that

bovine · Apr 18, 2017

scatterbrainedlass said:
Here she is

Look at the picture. I'm now 100% sure I'm right.

_sheptastic said:
Wouldn't she of needed to finish lambing before she cleansed @bovine ?

Nope. Each lamb has a separate set of membranes.

Al R said:
Heart attack from straining maybe?

We covered this very recently - it doesn't happen.

Northeastfarmer · Apr 18, 2017

If there's a way to die a sheep will find it

cheviot53 · Apr 18, 2017

Had a ewe choke last year on the cleansing and like the picture she had a length hanging out of her mouth , and while iv'e never seen a cow choke my dad had and he always said remove the cleansing as soon as

Al R · Apr 18, 2017

Northeastfarmer said:
Don't let @bovine hear you saying that

I thought I was going to have 1 when on the toilet earlier so thought could easily happen in labour?

Northeastfarmer · Apr 18, 2017

Al R said:
I thought I was going to have 1 when on the toilet earlier so thought could easily happen in labour?

scatterbrainedlass · Apr 18, 2017

Thanks @bovine for giving at least confirming that as a viable reason!! Successfully fostered her lamb onto another ewe so at least that's one less thing to worry about!

reddragon · Apr 18, 2017

choked on cleansing. seen it happen

reddragon · Apr 18, 2017

sods law she drop dead on the lamb and smother that too

S J H · Apr 18, 2017

cheviot53 said:
Had a ewe choke last year on the cleansing and like the picture she had a length hanging out of her mouth , and while iv'e never seen a cow choke my dad had and he always said remove the cleansing as soon as

Do they not need to eat it to replace minerals? that's what I always thought.

bovine · Apr 18, 2017

S J H said:
Do they not need to eat it to replace minerals? that's what I always thought.

No.

The best theory is to hide signs of the birth from predators.

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