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<blockquote data-quote="shumungus" data-source="post: 7943172" data-attributes="member: 55902"><p>Don't think there is anything you can do at this point, you'll just have to weather the storm. What they are doing is called evisceration, usually the muscle wall between the rectum/vagina splits and everything comes out, not saveable, always fatal. If at the point of lambing lambs may be saveable by emergency caesarean. There are numerous theories as to what causes it but none conclusive, some breeds are more prone than others and body condition and feed type have a lot to do with it, gorging themselves on long wet round bale silage would have been known as a culprit, but in your instance this is not the cause it seems. Don't reduce feeding dramatically as this will induce metabolic imbalance and as they try to utilise fat stored this will throw them into ketosis giving them 'fat twin lamb disease' which almost always results in at least a belly full of dead lambs if not a dead ewe. Not what you are wanting to hear but in my opinion with sheep when you are a week off the lambing your only a passenger at that stage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shumungus, post: 7943172, member: 55902"] Don't think there is anything you can do at this point, you'll just have to weather the storm. What they are doing is called evisceration, usually the muscle wall between the rectum/vagina splits and everything comes out, not saveable, always fatal. If at the point of lambing lambs may be saveable by emergency caesarean. There are numerous theories as to what causes it but none conclusive, some breeds are more prone than others and body condition and feed type have a lot to do with it, gorging themselves on long wet round bale silage would have been known as a culprit, but in your instance this is not the cause it seems. Don't reduce feeding dramatically as this will induce metabolic imbalance and as they try to utilise fat stored this will throw them into ketosis giving them 'fat twin lamb disease' which almost always results in at least a belly full of dead lambs if not a dead ewe. Not what you are wanting to hear but in my opinion with sheep when you are a week off the lambing your only a passenger at that stage. [/QUOTE]
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