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Lamb reviver/ boost/ jump start
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7922977" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>How many aren’t sucking if the costs are mounting over 1000 ewes?<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😲" title="Astonished face :astonished:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f632.png" data-shortname=":astonished:" /> </p><p></p><p>I’ve never been at all convinced that they work any better than a cheap dose of propylene glycol would (Ketosaid is about £8 for a litre), to give a rapidly absorbed energy boost. I guess they might boost trace elements too, but still unconvinced they’d do any more than a cheap TE propylene glycol based drench would do (4p/ml?).</p><p></p><p>If you have a lot that don’t suck on their own though, I’d suggest looking at genetics and/or trace elements in the ewes. It should be ‘normal’ that all lambs get on a teat and suck themselves, otherwise sheep would hav3 become extinct a long time before farmers got to mess them up.</p><p></p><p>In case you can’t tell, I lack the patience to be showing lots of lambs how to do what nature should have told them. That’s also the main reason black headed sheep haven’t featured here for 30 years.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤐" title="Zipper-mouth face :zipper_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f910.png" data-shortname=":zipper_mouth:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7922977, member: 348"] How many aren’t sucking if the costs are mounting over 1000 ewes?😲 I’ve never been at all convinced that they work any better than a cheap dose of propylene glycol would (Ketosaid is about £8 for a litre), to give a rapidly absorbed energy boost. I guess they might boost trace elements too, but still unconvinced they’d do any more than a cheap TE propylene glycol based drench would do (4p/ml?). If you have a lot that don’t suck on their own though, I’d suggest looking at genetics and/or trace elements in the ewes. It should be ‘normal’ that all lambs get on a teat and suck themselves, otherwise sheep would hav3 become extinct a long time before farmers got to mess them up. In case you can’t tell, I lack the patience to be showing lots of lambs how to do what nature should have told them. That’s also the main reason black headed sheep haven’t featured here for 30 years.🤐 [/QUOTE]
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