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Several gimmers rejecting lambs at same time
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<blockquote data-quote="hairycoo" data-source="post: 8132604" data-attributes="member: 136386"><p>Hi guys</p><p></p><p>Any idea why all of a sudden every gimmer decides to reject the lamb? We never usually have this issue and the gimmers this year have been exceptionally good mothers up to that point. But all of a sudden, pretty much from one day to the next, every gimmer in the polytunnel that lambs does not accept her lamb, regardless of whether she does it herself or whether we lamb her. Some might tolerate it and cry for it if you take it away but none of them will stand for it. The older ewes are still fine and no bother and these are gimmers from different sires and different management groups, all managed the same way as the ones that have already lambed. We've also got a whole bunch of gimmers from two other management groups lambing outside in a field and they are all fine and great mums.</p><p></p><p>We've switched onto a new load of haylage from a different farm recently which is fed to the polytunnel and outside ones, but could something in the haylage be locking some trace elements up that stops the mothering? Or could there be something in the water that feeds into the polytunnel which is accumulating in their system, but for some reason only affects the gimmers?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Any thoughts would be much appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hairycoo, post: 8132604, member: 136386"] Hi guys Any idea why all of a sudden every gimmer decides to reject the lamb? We never usually have this issue and the gimmers this year have been exceptionally good mothers up to that point. But all of a sudden, pretty much from one day to the next, every gimmer in the polytunnel that lambs does not accept her lamb, regardless of whether she does it herself or whether we lamb her. Some might tolerate it and cry for it if you take it away but none of them will stand for it. The older ewes are still fine and no bother and these are gimmers from different sires and different management groups, all managed the same way as the ones that have already lambed. We've also got a whole bunch of gimmers from two other management groups lambing outside in a field and they are all fine and great mums. We've switched onto a new load of haylage from a different farm recently which is fed to the polytunnel and outside ones, but could something in the haylage be locking some trace elements up that stops the mothering? Or could there be something in the water that feeds into the polytunnel which is accumulating in their system, but for some reason only affects the gimmers? Any thoughts would be much appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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