Lamb killing weather

[Grassman]

Heck. Another night of cold relentless rain. This has got to be the last of it surely!

 

[Danllan]

Heck. Another night of cold relentless rain. This has got to be the last of it surely!

You have my sympathy; we start lambing on Sunday to coincide with... a downpour. But then there will a few days of sun followed by... another downpour, I suspect there will be pattern to this .

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you...

 

[exmoor dave]

Gonna be 24 deg middle next week ...... apparently...... going to have forgotten what the sunny actually looks like by then..... been blanked by fog since Monday!

 

[Old Tip]

It’s cold wet torrential rain here again this morning, fields had just dried up ever so slightly, back to quagmire again now though. Honestly feel like going back to bed as absolutely knackered and fed up

 

[Anonymous...]

It’s cold wet torrential rain here again this morning, fields had just dried up ever so slightly, back to quagmire again now though. Honestly feel like going back to bed as absolutely knackered and fed up

Same down here apart from fields ,no way will ours dry for weeks.
Torrential rain all night,now back to low mist and drizzle,dare I say it feels a little milder today

 

[Jasper]

Wait a few more days untill the nukes start coming over it will soon warm / dry up LOL

 

[AftonShepherd]

It’s cold wet torrential rain here again this morning, fields had just dried up ever so slightly, back to quagmire again now though. Honestly feel like going back to bed as absolutely knackered and fed up

Could do with an Agree button next to the Like one.

 

[ISCO]

I think this week has been worst so far. Lambs got wet on Tuesday and it has been cold drizzle ever since apart from a downpour overnight.
We lamb inside and are still losing lambs when turned out. It should warm up after today.

 

[Skintagain]

Crap week lambs look poor that’s if you can find them! We have had fog for days!!

 

[Old Tip]

To cap it all I now have month old strong lambs going down with what looks like watery mouth

 

[Northeastfarmer]

To cap it all I now have month old strong lambs going down with what looks like watery mouth

Can’t see it being watery mouth at that age

 

[MJT]

To cap it all I now have month old strong lambs going down with what looks like watery mouth

Not cryptosporidium is it ?

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

Not cryptosporidium is it ?

A lot of that around here at the moment

 

[jendan]

To cap it all I now have month old strong lambs going down with what looks like watery mouth

I am giving a few lambs outside Spectam,if i think they are vulnerable.Usually the small lambs with their backs hunched up and a slightly bloated belly,but no sign of dung passage.

 

[spark_28]

this morning i checked the sheep at 9am, late i know but was helpign someone elses with theres first. had a ewe eating the hay but her water bag had come out and tbf looked liked it had been out some time. went back up about 1.45 and still nothing so i lambed her. she wasnt even pushing. first lamb gasping for air and star gazing a bit, wasnt easy to lamb. think hell be a goner. got the second out ten minutes after as i was trying to get the first one going. second ones fine and up on its feet. do you think i intervened too soon? just had a bad feeling with the length of time and the condition the ewes are in, plus ive had some big singles the last couple of days. gave the sheep painkillers and anti biotics.

bad enough the weather killing them, worse when its possibly me.

 

[hendrebc]

this morning i checked the sheep at 9am, late i know but was helpign someone elses with theres first. had a ewe eating the hay but her water bag had come out and tbf looked liked it had been out some time. went back up about 1.45 and still nothing so i lambed her. she wasnt even pushing. first lamb gasping for air and star gazing a bit, wasnt easy to lamb. think hell be a goner. got the second out ten minutes after as i was trying to get the first one going. second ones fine and up on its feet. do you think i intervened too soon? just had a bad feeling with the length of time and the condition the ewes are in, plus ive had some big singles the last couple of days. gave the sheep painkillers and anti biotics.

bad enough the weather killing them, worse when its possibly me.

Hard to ever know. If the lambs are alive and well and the ewe is ok thats the most important thing. If youd lambed her and had 2 dead lambs youd he kicking yourself for not lambing her sooner

 

[MJT]

A lot of that around here at the moment

Have a few here with it, am I right in thinking just let it take its course and hope for the best

 

[Old Tip]

Not cryptosporidium is it ?

Not sure but it’s not scoured and has slime round it’s mouth, found them flat out and obviously in pain. Crypto you usually get a stinking scour don’t you ?

 

[Cheesehead]

Not sure if it is sheer dumb luck or just the fact that we had more singles this year than usual or because we had our ewes winter shorn so they're more careful or because of the breeds but given the weather we have had we have only had just under a dozen die out in the fields as opposed to the numbers we lost in one storm where the ewes trampled, smothered and drown the lambs in mud where they piled all into one corner.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Was talking to a friend today and he said there’s a 5 week waiting list for cake....mills working 24/7 and can’t cope with demand....all you need at lambing time