Pregnant wife and cade lambs

[Fellstoflats]

Hi all,

After some advice/wisdom/opinion- My wife has stayed out of the lambing sheds, I'm changing and showering elsewhere before I come in etc, but I was wondering about giving her the cade lambs to deal with?

They're on an electric shepherdess, so not directly hands on.

Any thoughts appreciated- NHS, midwife etc are all a bit vague!

 

[Mc115reed]

When my mrs was pregnant the we ice we were given by all our nurses/doctors was she could do anything with “dry stock”.. aslong as she was nowhere near any birthing fluids, wet lambs, and anything that had came into contact with wet lambs/birthing fluids within the last 48 hours… my setup couldn’t really accommodate that so she was only able to work with the sheep once they turned out but if you had a cade lamb pen away from all the lambing ewes and mothering pens there’s no reason she couldn’t run the cade lambs

 

[S J H]

Is it really worth the risk? My wife stayed away from the sheep on advise from her vet, he was pretty certain about it.

 

[MRT]

Don't do it. MrsT is due in a week and the moment a sheep lambs, aborts or whatever there is going to be total seperation inc. shower and change of clothes before anyone walks in the house let alone give her a lamb to feed

 

[scatterbrainedlass]

The birthing fluids are what can carry the potential danger, general consensus is dry lambs are fine. Obviously even then hygiene is key as you could end up picking up stomach bugs etc.

 

[BAF]

It's not worth the risk to me. There's plenty of years in the future to be faffing with cade lambs!

 

[MRT]

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[gwi1890]

My wife is pregnant and she stays away, not worth the risk, sold most what’s spare of cade lambs this year, funnily enough 14 of last year’s cade grades came back this morning averaging 21kg dw £122 per head

 

[Bob the beef]

Not worth it. It’s not just birthing fluids. If you get an outbreak of crypto or ecoli among your lambs, could have serious implications for a pregnancy

 

[steveR]

We have seen the result of a pregnant woman in contact with sheep lambing here. Can't prove anything, but...

It is a big from here. Just not worth the risk.




PS. Herself was banned from all contact with lambing ewes etc when she was pregnant 18months later.

 

[steveR]

Any thoughts appreciated- NHS, midwife etc are all a bit vague!

Not surprising. GP's have little understanding of farm related problems at all in my experience. Better asking a Vet!

Some midwives in farming areas will by clued up, but they will not be that common.

 

[Macsky]

Not at all worth the risk, you’d rather all the cade lambs dead than anything to happen.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Hi all,

After some advice/wisdom/opinion- My wife has stayed out of the lambing sheds, I'm changing and showering elsewhere before I come in etc, but I was wondering about giving her the cade lambs to deal with?

They're on an electric shepherdess, so not directly hands on.

Any thoughts appreciated- NHS, midwife etc are all a bit vague!

Bit of bad planning that, should of put the tup in sooner with your wife and she would of had her lamb before lambing,

Anyway just don't risk it, keep her well away and you keep clean

 

[milkloss]

I believe toxo is the biggest risk and our gp offered a blood test to see if the Mrs had been infected before. I can't remember the result now......

 

[Al R]

A lot of lambs carry cryptosporidium and you would never know which ones, couple that with e-coli, salmonella, orf and anything else lambs carry that can’t always be seen without even mentioning birthing fluids/enzo/toxo. We have a visitor program here and healthy children of 10-11 arn’t allowed to touch a lamb or ewe until over 3 weeks after birth, they have to wash hands straight away and are also wearing full waterproofs. I don’t do bottle lambs but if I did I definitely wouldn’t if the wife was pregnant!

 

[bobk]

Is it really worth the risk? My wife stayed away from the sheep on advise from her vet, he was pretty certain about it.

This ^^
My wife was pregnant quite a lot when sheep were here , even my old chap was concerned , and he was reckless

 

[CopperBeech]

Why would you f*cking bother ? For the sake of that wee bit of work, would you ever forgive yourself if it did go wrong ?

 

[Guleesh]

This ^^
My wife was pregnant quite a lot when sheep were here , even my old chap was concerned , and he was reckless

Any idea who the father was?

 

[tinsheet]

No, speaking from experience!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Now, I know this won’t be a popular idea. But if I were needing the wife too see too the cades due too being very busy with everything else (perfectly normal, nothing wrong with it) and she were pregnant. If I couldn’t give them away I would knock them. Nasty but I value the wife and baby much higher than my entire flock of sheep. (And I’m sheep mad). Mine is completely banned from coming through the gate into the main yard until lambing is well over. She’s designated tea lady, chef & cleaner.