I'm not blaming the feed ...

[DartmoorEwe]

I'm not blaming the feed but today I was putting a dead lamb into a sack marked "Lamb Finisher".

 

[primmiemoo]

Sure nuff, and for certain!!

 

[Gator]

Lived its lifes ambition

 

[Nithsdale]

Did it die, having choked on some of said "lamb finisher"?


Name and shame the feed company

 

[DartmoorEwe]

I think its louping ill but it could be any of the many neurological galloping on their sides looking at the sky feeding the buzzards delicious spaghetti illnesses that sheep get. I've lost 4 this week.

 

[primmiemoo]

Been pulpy kidney galore, here, in one group. Revised timing of jabs for next year. Could have done without it, really.

 

[Longlowdog]

I can beat that.
I bought an in-lamb gimmer before Christmas and got a cracking mixed sex pair from her. I liked the tup lamb enough to DNA him for a new addition to the flock.
Friday I noticed the ewe lamb with a bit of a prolapse.
Monday first order of business I shot her to avoid any pain and I didn't want a stitched up lamb going through the mart. Climbed through the hedge to check the tup lambs and guess who had managed to hang himself in the ryelock while trying to eat rose hips? Douglas Brae took brother and sister away this morning. Sheep are feckers!

 

[Purli R]

I can beat that.
I bought an in-lamb gimmer before Christmas and got a cracking mixed sex pair from her. I liked the tup lamb enough to DNA him for a new addition to the flock.
Friday I noticed the ewe lamb with a bit of a prolapse.
Monday first order of business I shot her to avoid any pain and I didn't want a stitched up lamb going through the mart. Climbed through the hedge to check the tup lambs and guess who had managed to hang himself in the ryelock while trying to eat rose hips? Douglas Brae took brother and sister away this morning. Sheep are feckers!

Was wondering what a "mixed sex pair" was for a moment there!!

 

[egbert]

I think its louping ill but it could be any of the many neurological galloping on their sides looking at the sky feeding the buzzards delicious spaghetti illnesses that sheep get. I've lost 4 this week.

I'm pretty sure we've got louping ill again....ruined a lot last winter, and more through this summer....
I've a blood test awaiting news from't vet

 

[egbert]

A few years back, the local hunts dead cart was an old ford pick-up, eveidently bought from a pest control firm in Exeter.
Hunt master had half heartedly repainted it, but the signwriting could easily still be read........
The previous owner was called 'Exe-terminator'

 

[Gator]

Was wondering what a "mixed sex pair" was for a moment there!!

Homafridite
It'll save buyin expensive tups

 

[Green farmer]

Climbed through the hedge to check the tup lambs and guess who had managed to hang himself in the ryelock while trying to eat rose hips? Douglas Brae took brother and sister away this morning. Sheep are feckers!

Had a hogget loose her lamb at birth last year. Caught her and put her in a foster gate in the corner of field. Went away for 5 minutes to get a pet lamb for under her. She wasnt none happy jumping about in foster gate. Assumed she would have calmed down by time I got back with pet lamb. Few minutes later I arrived back with pet, only to find hogget had knocked foster pen over on top of herself and in the process broke her neck. killed herself instantly. I was left scratching my head thinking, now did she manage to do that ? That's sheep for you.

 

[Longlowdog]

I've also had a sheep called Mighty Hermaphrodity (till she hit the fat ring). My first lambing job I lambed quads and kept the four apparently female mini lambs alive until they began to thrive and the owner told me to take mum (called Two Scoops) and her offspring home. Come tupping time for those lambs I put the tup in and one started knocking seven shades out of the tup. A closer inspection revealed it was indeed a female on the outside with two prodigiously sized nuts under her/his/its/whatever it identified as skin.
I haven't keep many sheep or for very long but they have proved inventive in their wily ways of messing with my head.

 

[Nithsdale]

Hermaphodites are a freak happening... at least we don't get Freemartins in sheep

 

[Cowslip]

I have a hermaphrodite lamb this year, bloody thing keeps getting fly as it pees upwards!