Deformed Lamb

[unlacedgecko]

First freak of this season.

@bovine any ideas?

 

[GrannyAching]

see my pics on the Schmellenburg thread - @bovine said probably not Schmallenburg as did my own vet but I've frozen it and going to drop it in to the vet centre when I pass next to do my bit for the info chain.


EDIT - pic - similarities

 

[GreenerGrass]

Wasn't auditioning for this was he:

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I'd say schmallenburg

Then again it could just be Mother Nature

 

[Chasingmytail]

One of my first born of twins had a serious alien face like half of the front was missing and mouth in the wrong place. It was breathing on birth I was freaked out. I didnt want to take a pic as weird. No further ones like it assume nature. The other twin lamb is fit and strong.

 

[GTB]

We get at least two or three 'not right' every year and always have, even long before schmallenberg was invented.

 

[Al R]

We get at least two or three 'not right' every year and always have, even long before schmallenberg was invented.

And more than often their at the start. Got a living pure ram lamb without a tail bone at all.
Had a lamb with 5 legs but it was head, another with 6 legs (4 back legs and 2 back halves of a lamb) which was alive until it came out.. we thought this was schmallenberg but we've always had these oddities for years, lambs with 2 heads, no spine, a limb missing, no bumhole(3 this year) , haermaphrodite (2 this year)..
Mother Nature is all I think it is?

 

[scatterbrainedlass]

Malformed jaws are just one of those things I think, used to see a couple out of 500 ewes every year before Shmallenberg came on the scene. Some of them were alive but couldn't suckle so had to be disposed of. Not seen a confirmed case of Shmallenberg but I've heard the leg joints can be backwards? I'd say that one is just one of those random freaks.

 

[Wooly]

We get at least two or three 'not right' every year and always have, even long before schmallenberg was invented.

...........but you do live in Wales, so are you surprised !?!

 

[bovine]

That's got hydrocephalus and none of the joint abnormalities consistent with SBV. We've always seen such lambs and calves sporadically.

 

[GTB]

...........but you do live in Wales, so are you surprised !?!

That's got hydrocephalus and none of the joint abnormalities consistent with SBV. We've always seen such lambs and calves sporadically.

Even in England?

 

[bovine]

Everywhere. There are different degrees of it and some are not compatible with life.

 

[GTB]

Everywhere. There are different degrees of it and some are not compatible with life.

I was joking.

 

[bovine]

I know

 

[Sheep92]

Malformed jaws are just one of those things I think, used to see a couple out of 500 ewes every year before Shmallenberg came on the scene. Some of them were alive but couldn't suckle so had to be disposed of. Not seen a confirmed case of Shmallenberg but I've heard the leg joints can be backwards? I'd say that one is just one of those random freaks.

Had one here this morning from a hoggett, back legs twisted, front legs wrong way round and no bottom jaw, poor divil was mad alive, only one wev had this year out of 1400 lambing

 

[CJay]

What way do people despatch these poor we sods? I've only got a shot gun but would prefer a different method if possible

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What way do people despatch these poor we sods? I've only got a shot gun but would prefer a different method if possible

I'd imagine that works

 

[gatepost]

What way do people despatch these poor we sods? I've only got a shot gun but would prefer a different method if possible

Read Father Brown ,The hammer of God.

 

[Sheep92]

What way do people despatch these poor we sods? I've only got a shot gun but would prefer a different method if possible

Concrete wall and one swing, hate it more than anything but probably quickest least messiest way

 

[CopperBeech]

Blunt force trauma or pistol