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We had one, who'd been on the bottle a fair while, fostered onto a ewe who's lamb was 'born in a bag'. It was while our vet student was... -
We keep our younger empties, cost nowt to keep them around till next tupping time when you can just turn them out onto the fell, usually...
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ladycrofter reacted to JockCroft's post in the thread Ewes got milk, lambs sucking but still starving. Listeria issue? with
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Older ewes are having a hard time this spring. Had 5 or 6 now milk disappears after 2 or 3 days. Lambs cool and don't respond to... -
Talking of positive, someone’s just phoned wanting to harvest the dandelion seed from one of my fields if the wind doesn’t get them...
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That's the one! She's at home on the lawn so at least if she does drop dead I won't have to traipse across the field to fetch her.
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Took the wife to see the lambs in the sunshine this afternoon so of course there was a ewe dying of mastitis. Hunched up and generally...
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ladycrofter replied to the thread Ewes got milk, lambs sucking but still starving. Listeria issue?.@Cassettie Poor quality milk, for whatever reason. Same with old ewes, they make milk but not enough goodness in it to grow the lamb.
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Just let a ewe out of the stocks where she's been for a week because she didn't want one of her lambs, well she's treating them both...
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ladycrofter replied to the thread f**k Up Fortnight.Mr in Skin still alive, she hasn't killed him and he hasn't starved. Still needs a bit of supervision, looking hopeful. UNTIL I was...
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Last ewe lamb lambed this morning. 2024 has been "challenging" to say the least, but only 6 months until the tups go in again and Roll...
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Still got the hogg triplets to look forward to 🙀
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Why have you lot still got scanned empty’s about. Mine go the day after scanning.
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Dunno about calcium, but it usually ends up something like this here... :facepalm:
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😄well spotted.... replacement tags are in the post😬
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Turned all my remaining ewes and lambs out last Monday including one ewe that was slightly bagged up... thinking maybe she'd slipped her...