Ewe with urin stains around her back end.
- Thread starter MrFencer
- Start date
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
future maggot issues ? its a fault , would look to cull unless its an exceptional ewe and you remember to manage it with fly protection , may also be an injury from shearing , that will have a bearing on keeping offspring
spark_28
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- Location
- Western isles
Is it definitely a ‘ewe’ ?
Pretty sure hemaphrodites are bad for that but you’d have probably noticed it by now
Pretty sure hemaphrodites are bad for that but you’d have probably noticed it by now
- Location
- Cheshire
Never keep a ewe who can’t keep herself clean. Thats what I’ve always been told, guessing it’s due too maggots?
I think there’s something in the free Martin theory as well!
I think there’s something in the free Martin theory as well!
No maggots just discoloured around the back end. No muck.
What is the martin theory.
I have heard that saying before.
Yes definitely female.
- Location
- America's dairyland
Anymulewilldo might have been referring to a hermafrodite. A "free martin" is a heifer calf that was twin to a bull calf, the heifer will never carry a calf. Never heard that compared to a hermafrodite, or heard of any problem with ewe lambs with male littermates.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We had a lamb known as Sheepies Squint who we chanced as a gimmer. After whatever stress, strains and stretching of lambing she went through she stopped and became Sheepies Straight.
- Location
- mid devon somewhere
Probably just wet her knickers with excitement, tupping time is just around the corner!
Get a few with shapier ewe lambs. They’re bigger issue with maggots is usually on the top of their shoulders even then. If your maggot control can’t cope with a couple of messy pissers you’d better cull her, but I reckon you’d lose out on what could be an otherwise decent ewe, especially since they tend to grow out of it.
Many years ago…helped out at a neighbours during a TB check….
Once that was over….Neighbour ran a heifer up the race and into the crate..
Now bear in mind the word “Freemartin”
Vet enquired what was needing to be done with this one….
Neighbour who had a bit of a weakness for getting the wrong word at times replied..
”Could you put your hand in there and tell me if she is a Freemason?”
Once that was over….Neighbour ran a heifer up the race and into the crate..
Now bear in mind the word “Freemartin”
Vet enquired what was needing to be done with this one….
Neighbour who had a bit of a weakness for getting the wrong word at times replied..
”Could you put your hand in there and tell me if she is a Freemason?”
Pistonbroke
Member
A neighbour has had Ill health for a few years and didn't lamb any ewes for two years in a row. He sold them all last autumn and about half of them were stained like the op
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Anything with a bit of shape or over fit with a fat arse will physically be more likely to pee on itself.
fat pet sheep often have it cause they can bend their back to squat.
a back injury could cause this too
fat pet sheep often have it cause they can bend their back to squat.
a back injury could cause this too