Had nearly the same with 5 sets of twins born a couple of days before due date. The larger lambs are fine but all the smaller ones died. Don't think they passed the black plug...spotted another later on with same symptoms, hunched, big belly and a clean arse. Flushed it out with a syringe full of warm soapy water and a couple of hours later it was fine. Ewes all had colostrum and good full bags...can't work out why that would happen to the lambs, anyone got any ideas?
f**k Up Fortnight
- Thread starter yellowbelly
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How much "soapy water" applied in the enema?? Straight in the bum, or a bit of tube as well?
Yes, I've seen similiar symptoms last year...
Straight up the bum no tube, small 6ml syringe warm water/washing up liquid. Plug came out within minutes followed by proper stinky yellow poo.
- Location
- Cheshire
Cull trades good…Had a ewe with 3 dead last night, fostered 2 on and all seems happy, came in this morning and she has knocked one in the water bucket and broken the others legs.
- Location
- Cheshire
Unless you REALLY trust your spouse, I’d go see a doctor if I were you…
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- Cheshire
I think many a morning we could be taken straight from the page of a Henry Brewis book! Bravoxined all the ewes Thursday, turned them out for the first time since start of feb. Only onto an 8 acre bank field. 550 twins and triplets on so it’s perhaps a bit overstocked. No grass but it’s dry. Went with the carrots that evening and there’s a masham shearling pushing a dead lamb and a ball of snot out. “Yep” I thought, “must be the 10 days before lambing again”
rapidly going off Mashams again, the 45 we bought last year are doing a very good job of reminding me why I swapped too Cheviot Mules…
rapidly going off Mashams again, the 45 we bought last year are doing a very good job of reminding me why I swapped too Cheviot Mules…
Some good news; 3am fiasco has only resulted in one theave in the stocks.
How any of the stupid buggers would ever live in the wild, I cannot imagine.
The keen observer will note the just a head out presentation in the 2nd picture.
Why do they go in spates, all unassisted lambings for days then three with heads only, the same day
How any of the stupid buggers would ever live in the wild, I cannot imagine.
The keen observer will note the just a head out presentation in the 2nd picture.
Why do they go in spates, all unassisted lambings for days then three with heads only, the same day
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Pistonbroke
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Pure texel yearling had a pair of tup lambs,best so far. Talking to them,licking them so left them quiet in a pen. Came back half an hour later to see her slamming the two of them into the hurdles. Killed one instantly,the other can't stand on his front legs anymore but is sucking a bottle. Fingers crossed. Ewe brought quads in the middle of the night,by morning lay on top of one and thrown her insides right out. Got it all back in carefully and left her eating. Dead an hour later.
beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
'Twas always thus - that 10-14 days in the run up to the start of lambing heralds the onslaught of TLD, prolapses, blown guts, abortions and the 1001 other things that can go wrong with sheep
Many moons ago, when I was young and keen, an old bloke once told me, "A farm or a piece of ground can only sustain a certain number of sheep. No matter what you do (with improved husbandry, new techniques or drugs, or anything else) to increase numbers they will eventually die back to that number." He was right.
It's all well documented in various threads here on TFF, many people are well into f**k Up Fortnight.
So, for all of you, here's a few gems from that great farming commentator, Henry Brewis, to hopefully lighten your mood and raise a bit of a smile
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A Dying Race
The yow is a creature I've studied too long,
And still found no reason to burst into song,
The beast is not witty, amusing or well read,
And gives the impression she'd rather be dead,
Whether it's post or just ante natal,
Every disease will be more or less fatal,
For the length of her life she will always desire,
To baffle the shepherd and quickly expire,
You may think the animal is quite tame,
But nothing runs far when it's constantly lame,
Dose her, inject her, take care if her feet,
If science can cure her then the bugger won't eat,
The fit ones have singles, the worst produce three,
All with a brain the size of a pea,
And mother can't count, her arithmetic stinks,
So she may have had more than the stupid bitch thinks,
They're awkward, they're brainless, you must come to terms,
That bugs and bacteria and most of all worms,
Will assist every sheep to escape from this earth,
As quickly as possible, soon after birth,
The breed doesn't matter, they're all on a par,
The trouble comes with them, you needn't look far,
They're only appeal comes later of course,
With small new potatoes and a little mint sauce.
The Vet
She got a tin of Terramycin
And a bottle full of dope
A pint of penicillin
And a canny bit of hope
The vet was optimistic
He'd worked miracles before
But the yow was quite determined
And she died at half past four
The vet was very sad indeed
He thought it might've lived
And I was disappointed too
'Cos he charged me ninety quid
Keep smiling everybody, it's just the way sheep are.
The second poem is the reason any sheep I have needs to be very special to treatment from the vet!
She won’t be here this time next week.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Peritonitous in 5 days time?
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- N.Lincs
- Location
- Le Veurde, Allier, France 03320
You and me both, but then for some inexplicable reason I went and bought the other half a few for Christmas last year. It really is true when they say a few take just as much looking after as hundreds
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Could be worse… I bought my mrs a couple pedigree beltexs last year for her birthdayYou and me both, but then for some inexplicable reason I went and bought the other half a few for Christmas last year. It really is true when they say a few take just as much looking after as hundreds
so far we have
a 50% death rate
A 100% C section rate
A 0% rearing there own lambs rate
The money Iv spent on them I could have bought 30-40 ewe lambs for extra numbers
- Location
- Limousin, France
Buy em in a box now, off a neighbour, bag em up for freezer . Job done!You and me both, but then for some inexplicable reason I went and bought the other half a few for Christmas last year. It really is true when they say a few take just as much looking after as hundreds
- Location
- Cheshire
Could be worse… I bought my mrs a couple pedigree beltexs last year for her birthday
so far we have
a 50% death rate
A 100% C section rate
A 0% rearing there own lambs rate
The money Iv spent on them I could have bought 30-40 ewe lambs for extra numbers
yeah… personally, and this in no way reflects on you. I’d call that a cock up.
yeah… personally, and this in no way reflects on you. I’d call that a cock up.
it’s not as bad as it sounds, there was only 2 of them and 1 of them dropped down dead a week after I bought it 
Greythundercloudys
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Where is the thread call lv had more disasters than you, l know afew farmer who Bragg about there loses and deaths.
If you don’t learn too laugh about your disasters and f**k ups they eat you alive! Ask any fireman or ambulance driver