Single Lamb sucking one side

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
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West Wales
When a lamb drops dead (for any reason we care too list) 99.5% of the time the ewe just dries off… then you find them at shearing and it’s a “woopee” moment as you’ve something too sell in the slow period between lambing issue culls and the first lambs going. 👍👍
The only reason I number the singles both lamb and mother is so if the lamb does die she gets dropped by the dogs and straight into the cull field 👌🏼
 

Almarkseverwhar

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Livestock Farmer
The pressure is what will dry that quarter up.

Are you desperate for something to meddle with? I’ve never heard anything so daft tbh.🤐
So if you have a ewe with twins a few days old and they’re only taking one side you leave it? So you end up with a ewe with mastitis and under nourished lambs? Yeah I’m the daft one.
 

neilo

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Montgomeryshire
So if you have a ewe with twins a few days old and they’re only taking one side you leave it? So you end up with a ewe with mastitis and under nourished lambs? Yeah I’m the daft one.

If you have twin lambs on, then I’d do what @Anymulewilldo said (including the cull mark).

Your OP said you had a single lamb, sucking on one side. No different to a ewe that loses one of a twin at a few weeks old. It’s really not a problem and incredibly rare that it would ever cause a problem such as you describe.
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
The pressure is what will dry that quarter up.

Are you desperate for something to meddle with? I’ve never heard anything so daft tbh.🤐

Here's something dafter.

I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.

Alternative employment was soon found.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Here's something dafter.

I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.

Alternative employment was soon found.
🤣🤣🤣 Which then makes the ewe produce more milk as she thinks she has the demand 🤦🏻‍♂️ Alternatively if ewes are in a pen for circa 3hrs without their lambs they are bulging and full. Was your friend doing treatments on a large batch where they had separated ewes and lambs during treating?
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
🤣🤣🤣 Which then makes the ewe produce more milk as she thinks she has the demand 🤦🏻‍♂️ Alternatively if ewes are in a pen for circa 3hrs without their lambs they are bulging and full. Was your friend doing treatments on a large batch where they had separated ewes and lambs during treating?
No, this was a day or 2 post weaning.
 

hill farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
breconshire
Here's something dafter.

I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.

Alternative employment was soon found.
Actually know a farmer who does this, I think it's just on ewes that he sells lambs off before weaning, he reckons that it's stopped them getting mastitis. ( he'd had problems before)
 

AftonShepherd

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Ayrshire
Here's something dafter.

I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.

Alternative employment was soon found.
Can't help wondering if this boss (and quite possibly the OP) originate from a dairy farming background?
 

Almarkseverwhar

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Livestock Farmer
If you have twin lambs on, then I’d do what @Anymulewilldo said (including the cull mark).

Your OP said you had a single lamb, sucking on one side. No different to a ewe that loses one of a twin at a few weeks old. It’s really not a problem and incredibly rare that it would ever cause a problem such as you describe.
Ah, had issues posting, started with single side only the lambs are sucking. Should’ve checked that before I posted.

we‘d been drawing it for about 5 days but the lambs favour one side.

Maybe I have too much pride in my ewes just to let them go to cull. Different ways of working I suppose. Don’t see the point of letting a ewe go for cull if you can help it.

the other comment on the thread I’ve been sheep farming for 40 years and never seen this issue go on so long. That is all, no need for the dicky comments.
wont Post again, on with your helpful comments
 

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