Anyone tried Vicks on the favourite teet? Or am I going to have to put on another fabric cover?
So bagged up it’s going to get mastitisIf it's getting enough does it matter?
So bagged up it’s going to get mastitis
When a lamb drops dead (for any reason we care too list) 99.5% of the time the ewe just dries off… then you find them at shearing and it’s a “woopee” moment as you’ve something too sell in the slow period between lambing issue culls and the first lambs going.So bagged up it’s going to get mastitis
The only reason I number the singles both lamb and mother is so if the lamb does die she gets dropped by the dogs and straight into the cull fieldWhen a lamb drops dead (for any reason we care too list) 99.5% of the time the ewe just dries off… then you find them at shearing and it’s a “woopee” moment as you’ve something too sell in the slow period between lambing issue culls and the first lambs going.
So if you have a ewe with twins a few days old and they’re only taking one side you leave it? So you end up with a ewe with mastitis and under nourished lambs? Yeah I’m the daft one.The pressure is what will dry that quarter up.
Are you desperate for something to meddle with? I’ve never heard anything so daft tbh.
It works if anyone else is interestedAnyone tried Vicks on the favourite teet? Or am I going to have to put on another fabric cover?
You draw it out so the lambs can manage it. If the teat is huge you mark it for culling.So if you have a ewe with twins a few days old and they’re only taking one side you leave it? So you end up with a ewe with mastitis and under nourished lambs? Yeah I’m the daft one.
So if you have a ewe with twins a few days old and they’re only taking one side you leave it? So you end up with a ewe with mastitis and under nourished lambs? Yeah I’m the daft one.
I'm notIt works if anyone else is interested
The pressure is what will dry that quarter up.
Are you desperate for something to meddle with? I’ve never heard anything so daft tbh.
Which then makes the ewe produce more milk as she thinks she has the demand Alternatively if ewes are in a pen for circa 3hrs without their lambs they are bulging and full. Was your friend doing treatments on a large batch where they had separated ewes and lambs during treating?Here's something dafter.
I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.
Alternative employment was soon found.
No, this was a day or 2 post weaning.Which then makes the ewe produce more milk as she thinks she has the demand Alternatively if ewes are in a pen for circa 3hrs without their lambs they are bulging and full. Was your friend doing treatments on a large batch where they had separated ewes and lambs during treating?
Brilliant did he sell the milk after?No, this was a day or 2 post weaning.
Thrown awayBrilliant did he sell the milk after?
Actually know a farmer who does this, I think it's just on ewes that he sells lambs off before weaning, he reckons that it's stopped them getting mastitis. ( he'd had problems before)Here's something dafter.
I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.
Alternative employment was soon found.
Can't help wondering if this boss (and quite possibly the OP) originate from a dairy farming background?Here's something dafter.
I've a friend who was shepherding in Yorkshire. Post weaning the ewes were in the pens and the boss saw them. Apparently the bags were looking very full, which would cause mastitis. Instructions were issued that my friend was do put the ewes through a pen and hand milk out each one.
Alternative employment was soon found.
Ah, had issues posting, started with single side only the lambs are sucking. Should’ve checked that before I posted.If you have twin lambs on, then I’d do what @Anymulewilldo said (including the cull mark).
Your OP said you had a single lamb, sucking on one side. No different to a ewe that loses one of a twin at a few weeks old. It’s really not a problem and incredibly rare that it would ever cause a problem such as you describe.