Got 4 day old lamb laid out flat

[Benn]

lamb found in corner field very watery mouth ,scour explosion

Whats best treat ment??
Just knock on head ?

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

lamb found in corner field very watery mouth ,scour explosion

Whats best treat ment??
Just knock on head ?

Heat box, scour treatment, feed.

May or may not work.

TSS

 

[Benn]

Already under heat lamb looks doubtful
Typocally it lamb i had my eye on for a teaser

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

Already under heat lamb looks doubtful
Typocally it lamb i had my eye on for a teaser

Stomach tube to feed?

TSS

 

[Benn]

Dead within few minutes after replying typical and was single and ewe full milk

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

Dead within few minutes after replying typical and was single and ewe full milk

Not good. I would send you a lamb to set on if TFF had a teleportation function.

TSS

 

[Benn]

Not good. I would send you a lamb to set on if TFF had a teleportation function.

TSS

 

[Al R]

Dead within few minutes after replying typical and was single and ewe full milk

Keep her and her lamb in incase anything else has a problem - ewe rejects a lamb, 1 teat working, triplets born etc... you can skin the dead 1 then!

 

[Benn]

How long after can you skin onto another lamb and ewe still take it?

 

[daithi]

I know it's a bit late now but a glucose injection into the stomach can bring them around, then heat box and then tube them when they come round.

 

[Al R]

How long after can you skin onto another lamb and ewe still take it?

Had some 3-4 days after and still taken, skinning is the hard job then because of the smell and rotting and that's done in early March in less heat.. we've pulled a poor twin off quite a few times so that you've got 2 good singles that finish early instead of a pair of twins that arnt doing well and a empty ewe aswell.

 

[Benn]

Reckon was watery mouth?
Real bloated and soaking wet mouth and eyes were watery anything can do for that or is it as said above?

 

[Al R]

Reckon was watery mouth?
Real bloated and soaking wet mouth and eyes were watery anything can do for that or is it as said above?

Watery mouth that is.. we had 2 cases this year and both were knock on the head as soon as we realised :/ off a quads aswell!

 

[Benn]

Thought so my gut instinct said knock on head i will
Next time poor bugger

 

[CopperBeech]

Only thing I've found that sorts watery mouth is one ml amoxycillin, 1 ml pen strep and a squirt of spectam. Shotgun approach.