Getting extra calcium into ewes

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

IME they don't normally eat with calcium deficiency . Have you considered white muscle disease ( deficiency of a combination of vit E and Selenium) They look bright with this and will eat and will usually ,slowly respond to vit e and Sel injections ( Vitesel or equivalent).

 

[Boso]

Have fed potatoes to in lamb ewes. Potatoes will cause calcium deficiency. I just add a scoop of what we call feed chalk and mix it in with the potatoes. Since they are moist it sticks to them rather good and looks like you are serving frosted potatoes.

 

[sheepwise]

They were going off their legs, if you were lucky and caught them wobbling they recovered if you found them down they mostly didn’t get back up. Like they lost all strength in them, eating and bright as buttons but couldn’t stand. Blood test results came back as calcium deficient and a free access mineral seemed to help. The in lamb ones would then suddenly crash - probably triggered by lambing? Husband became quiet skilled at shooting a ewe and removing the lambs -had a lot of cades that year.

Any bother with ewes not opening up properly?

 

[SLA]

Nope, just motor issues.