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@ElaHazellDo you vaccinate your ewes? Sounds like tetanus?
@ElaHazellDo you vaccinate your ewes? Sounds like tetanus?
Wouldn’t be able to bend their necks back if tetanus...they are as stiff as boardsDo you vaccinate your ewes? Sounds like tetanus?
take a bit of stitching string from a feedbag and dip it in iodine before tying the navel offI tie a bit of catgut round one that looks a bit puffy/bloody like that, if I think it looks a bit dodgy.
Should have dropped the owners off a cliff [emoji36] [emoji36]Should of dropped the dog off at the pound...fuking arseholes
Around 2-4 weeks old, he was running pretty warm when I found him, him mouth was warm not cold
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I can't see how to start a new topic.
After waking up to 2 inches of snow last Thursday morning we had a very sick lamb (6-8 weeks old). Boss reckoned it was hypothermia, but surely a healthy lamb will keep up with the ewes, eat creep and/or hay? It was the only one affected. Its temperature was a degree low but nothing too bad. Warm bottle, heat lamp and antibiotics failed to do anything for it. It was dead less than 24 hrs later.
This morning I walked right up to a lamb, again 6-8 weeks old. It was yelling for its mother, to no avail. It has diarrhoea, feels warm but is totally blind (over night). It has had diarrhoea for a few days ? too much creep??.
Boss gave it Alamycin and Metacam. I don't hold out much hope - by 6pm it was arching its head over its back, just as the other one did.
Any ideas? I suspect E.coli .
I have to say, only half in in jest, that shooting out of control, simple minded, causing untold damage individuals will probably still be called murder in the UK. The dog may have promise however.In my rights to shoot it here ---but i don't have a gun and even when i did have a gun i never seemed to have it in the right place at the right time
Hi, Thank you for replying. Its poop is brown with a touch of mid green and very liquidy. Boss gave no rehydration therapy at all but gave it another dose of the same LA Alamycin as yesterday. It was still alive at lunch time but had been paddling its legs. It also lies with its head right over its back - not sure if this is a pain reflex as last weeks did the same. I haven't been at work this evening. I'm not sure I want anything to do with it really (apart from finding out a possible cause) because we have no biosecurity in place - just the lamb separated from the flock. Personally, I think it should have seen a vet - but that costs money.Could be a complex involving cocci (what colour scour?), and e coli. Boss will have given rehydration therapy to help antibiotics do their work?
But if blind ... is there anything at all in its environment that could cause poisoning?
@Grem If you want to get to the bottom of this and stopping it happening more then you have to decide what you will do.Hi, Thank you for replying. Its poop is brown with a touch of mid green and very liquidy. Boss gave no rehydration therapy at all but gave it another dose of the same LA Alamycin as yesterday. It was still alive at lunch time but had been paddling its legs. It also lies with its head right over its back - not sure if this is a pain reflex as last weeks did the same. I haven't been at work this evening. I'm not sure I want anything to do with it really (apart from finding out a possible cause) because we have no biosecurity in place - just the lamb separated from the flock. Personally, I think it should have seen a vet - but that costs money.
I'm pretty sure there is nothing it could have eaten to cause the blindness although it had frequented an area under blackthorn scrub.
Thank you. I have tried on several occasions during this lambing period (even offering to take lambs to the vet and paying for it myself) but my boss 'knows it all', claims to be an animal lover but won't have anything put to sleep or take an animal to the vets if he thinks the vet will suggest it. I can't say he is cruel but animal welfare is not a strong point around here. AB given out wholesale, foot rot cut out prior to ABs, lack of hygiene, lack of /poor feed but nothing that would get him hung. It certainly makes me think twice about eating meat and I'm no vegetarian.@Grem If you want to get to the bottom of this and stopping it happening more then you have to decide what you will do.
The first choice is do nothing.
Another is it is not about what you know but making the person in charge still feel like they can make a change but asking you / allowing you to help them. This will be difficult, but if you have in your mind a way to make it so the both of you do something that stops this happening more and it is more profitable then it can happen.
A way I have found helps is say something that you know - background, facts and potential savings. State how you have the knowledge, and then ask if this might be worth trying.
There are many options in-between these two. I would always try and change things that are wrong myself.
I hope this helps you find a way through
43 ram lambs to 47 ewe lambs so far. Only 2 to go.Down to the final 5 now. Narrowly avoided a caesar this morning with a whopping lamb, had a visit from Mr fox overnight and lost one and got one at home in the oven. Things come in 3s right?
Anyone else had more ram lambs than ewes? Worked out we're about 63-66% ram lambs this year
Thank you. I have tried on several occasions during this lambing period (even offering to take lambs to the vet and paying for it myself) but my boss 'knows it all', claims to be an animal lover but won't have anything put to sleep or take an animal to the vets if he thinks the vet will suggest it. I can't say he is cruel but animal welfare is not a strong point around here. AB given out wholesale, foot rot cut out prior to ABs, lack of hygiene, lack of /poor feed but nothing that would get him hung. It certainly makes me think twice about eating meat and I'm no vegetarian.
It's a number of years since I had my own sheep but I'm sure I used to give my lambs 2 Heptavac P injections one at 6 weeks then another at 12 weeks. Replacements were then vaccinated again in the autumn. Our lambs are only vaccinated in the autumn if they are to be kept. Who is right?
That's some lambing well done.180 ewes and gimmers left and 130 hoggs and im done been mental this year teasers really done there job 1856 sheep lambed in 12 days. Keeping up with marking and recording has been the biggest job. Glad im outside tho imaging carting all them.