f**k Up Fortnight

[abitdaft]

Roll of cotton wool and bandage is bloody cheap. Buy the stuff and do it right. Found this one broken just above the ankle a week past on Saturday. Had it changed twice since and it's fusing nicely
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Just make sure and don't put it on too tight or you'll cut off the circulation!

I buy a box of 12 vet wraps every year plus the under wrap. Brilliant to have on hand for animals and humans. Have saved both lambs and calves with it. Also great for wrapping my own hands as I am a bit precious about my hands. Don't want big calloused hands which means my hands are soft and blister easily. At some points in the year l look like a boxer. . Super cheap too.

 

[yellowbelly]

Genuine question?

I've got a lamb with a broken front leg. Just above the knee joint. Clean break. About a week old. Nice lamb. I kept two doubles in over the old snap last week. Put them in the same pen 12 foot square thinking they'll be fine. Walked in and found him stretched out thinking wtf. He's got a splint with vet wrap atm but I don't fancy his chances.
I had a pet lamb once with it below the knee and surprisingly fixed it.

Just wondering what you guys do in this situation?
Thanks.

Plenty of good advice has been dispensed by the collective

It's just a relief that @unlacedgecko didn't get here with his 'one size fits all' solutions to all ovine problems first

 

[Ysgythan]

Thought we’d got away lightly at the start this year, only for the f**k up fortnight to visit at the end.

 

[yellowbelly]

Thought we’d got away lightly at the start this year, only for the f**k up fortnight to visit at the end.

It gets you one way or the other

The sheep always have the 'last laugh'.

 

[Ysgythan]

Exactly

 

[Northern territory]

Well I’ve got over the fortnight and now in full term f1ck up. Lost two in water bags last night. Is it a texel thing, big filmy things. Tell me why we bother

 

[yellowbelly]

Well I’ve got over the fortnight and now in full term f1ck up. Lost two in water bags last night. Is it a texel thing, big filmy things. Tell me why we bother

We seem to get the odd one or two whatever the breed

As per the Henry Brewis ditty in the OP......

"The breed doesn't matter, they're all on a par,
The trouble comes with them, you needn't look far,"

 

[Ysgythan]

I don’t know if it’s a trace element thing. I think I remember someone saying selenium in the licks has an impact.

 

[Estate fencing.]

One year we had real bad joint ill, so next year went to bedding sheep down everyday, lost a hell of a lot of lambing the bags because the straw was so deep and the bag wasn’t braking.

 

[Jonp]

One year we had real bad joint ill, so next year went to bedding sheep down everyday, lost a hell of a lot of lambing the bags because the straw was so deep and the bag wasn’t braking.

Gave up deep bedding sheep on straw....they just dig down to the dirt floor to lamb! Put plenty of lime down in the minging corner of the shed where they like to lamb every couple of days and just spread stale hay from the bottom of the feeder over it. It must be a smell thing with sheep...mine hardly ever lamb in the nice clean areas.

 

[spark_28]

Not so much f**k up fortnight but f**k ul five months ago. first lambs this morning. Set of twins out of one of my lleyn ewes. f**king Hebridean must of got to her. Ones black as the ace of spades and the other is white. Atleast they are up and alive

 

[Northern territory]

One year we had real bad joint ill, so next year went to bedding sheep down everyday, lost a hell of a lot of lambing the bags because the straw was so deep and the bag wasn’t braking.

Interesting, one of these had the head out, i lambed it but had already drowned even with umbilical attached

 

[Bob the beef]

Well I’ve got over the fortnight and now in full term f1ck up. Lost two in water bags last night. Is it a texel thing, big filmy things. Tell me why we bother

Definitely selenium issues. Had a real bad go calving 3/4 years ago with calves stuck in the bag. Blood tested several cows and all low in selenium even having been bolused mid pregnancy

 

[Northern territory]

Definitely selenium issues. Had a real bad go calving 3/4 years ago with calves stuck in the bag. Blood tested several cows and all low in selenium even having been bolused mid pregnancy

Will see how it goes, the others have been ok, but it is frustrating

 

[Ysgythan]

Not so much f**k up fortnight but f**k ul five months ago. first lambs this morning. Set of twins out of one of my lleyn ewes. f**king Hebridean must of got to her. Ones black as the ace of spades and the other is white. Atleast they are up and alive

They are experts

 

[Nithsdale]

I buy a box of 12 vet wraps every year plus the under wrap. Brilliant to have on hand for animals and humans. Have saved both lambs and calves with it. Also great for wrapping my own hands as I am a bit precious about my hands. Don't want big calloused hands which means my hands are soft and blister easily. At some points in the year l look like a boxer. . Super cheap too.

"Hands that do dishes are as soft as can be. With mild green Fairly Liquid"...

 

[steveR]

We have the pen of shame. Any thieves get pulled out and put in solitary on the other side of the yard.
On another note, I’m just tubing a couple of small lambs on triplets watching 2 Cheviot mules trying too fight through a wooden hurdle… good job it’s a strong hurdle! females eh??

Sounds like PMT to me.......





I'll get me coat.....

 

[Nithsdale]

I have a roll of ‘proper stuff’ in the cupboard, but still first reach for a bit of plastic (cut from the side of a bottle), wrapped round with silage tape. It’s always worked as well, at a fraction of the cost, as the ‘proper’ stuff from the vets ime.

Don't go to the vets. Any ag store that's decent will stock it. £1 a roll. I kept the proper splint from back when the ex (a vet) did a lamb (also kept the large one when she did a tups leg).

The tape will be ok in place of the bandage tape - but it's actually the roll of wadding or cotton wool you need against the skin to pad it and so everything can breath

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Not so much f**k up fortnight but f**k ul five months ago. first lambs this morning. Set of twins out of one of my lleyn ewes. f**king Hebridean must of got to her. Ones black as the ace of spades and the other is white. Atleast they are up and alive

Neighbour of mine who is due to start lambing in 10 days had 19 lamb last week by a Shetland that escaped from an animal sanctuary

 

[primmiemoo]

Not so much f**k up fortnight but f**k ul five months ago. first lambs this morning. Set of twins out of one of my lleyn ewes. f**king Hebridean must of got to her. Ones black as the ace of spades and the other is white. Atleast they are up and alive

Some Lleyns come out as negatives! Had black ones that are from old, pure lines. Mind you, they're always polled ... .