Pet lambs swelling up

[glasshouse]

whats the remedy?

 

[spin cycle]

don't know....be interested to know myself

access to creep and hay?

 

[yellowbelly]

The Gospel according to Mrs YB
Less milk in one go.
Same as feeding most things - little and often (I know, it's a bit of a compromise feeding cades)
Make 'em drink with their heads up - so their esophageal groove closes and sends the milk to the abomasum (by-passing the other 3 stomachs)

 

[Spuddler]

On warm or cold milk?

 

[farmerclare]

Are they bloated due to too much milk or are they bloated due to 'bloat' ?

 

[neilo]

whats the remedy?

How old are they? Mine only usually ‘blow up’ if I haven’t weaned them at 5 weeks. Never found a remedy for it, unfortunately.

 

[Nithsdale]

How old are they? Mine only usually ‘blow up’ if I haven’t weaned them at 5 weeks. Never found a remedy for it, unfortunately.

When you wean at 5 weeks, are yours taking water by then?

I've tried it a few times and the don't drink for days! I give in and put more milk out

 

[neilo]

When you wean at 5 weeks, are yours taking water by then?

I've tried it a few times and the don't drink for days! I give in and put more milk out

They are taking a bit as soon as I put creep in (at about 2 weeks). They don’t take very much water of course, as they are drinking ad-lib milk, but they do at least know what it is for when they are weaned.

 

[glasshouse]

It seems to have deflated again, thanks.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

How old are they? Mine only usually ‘blow up’ if I haven’t weaned them at 5 weeks. Never found a remedy for it, unfortunately.

Are yours taking enough creep by 5 weeks?
Struggling to get mine to eat enough to spane them yet

 

[Spuddler]

Bicarbonate of soda works well

 

[Guiggs]

Weaned all mine at 5 weeks this year for the first time, never had such good cade lambs, they are hammering creep out of the feeder in the field, I'm daring to think they might make reasonable lambs and not still be here in September when everything else has gone!

 

[andybk]

if caught early , 2ml white pen into muscle might save them , (kills gas forming bactria in gut)

 

[neilo]

Are yours taking enough creep by 5 weeks?
Struggling to get mine to eat enough to spane them yet

They aren’t generally taking much by 5 weeks, but if they are taking enough to know what it is, their intake will shoot up when you wean them. If the machine ever runs out of powder (& then only gives them water) they soon take more pellets to compensate.