livestock 1
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On lambing at the moment having a fair few ewes very tight and a few ring wombs. Is this a mineral deficiency did I once hear? All tight ones are bought and not bolus Ed like our own bred ewes.
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Tight ewes
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Norfolk Hill Farmer
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Was told by a vet once to give ewes with ring womb a shot of calcium.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
And then wait an hour? I’ve heard that, and been told the hour is more important than the calcium....
I’ve seen us wait half a day. The ewe is more important to us than the lambs as we seem to always have plenty of pets about but if you damage the ewe she may not breed again or even snuff it. Patience is the word for ringwomb.
A lot will say get rid but we always record them and find they rarely suffer from it twice for some reason.
A lot will say get rid but we always record them and find they rarely suffer from it twice for some reason.
Boydvalley
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- Location
- Bath
Had a chap help me years ago with larger hands and very little patience as it turned out. Had loads of ring womb the following year.
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- N.Lincs
Had a 3 or 4 cropper (home bred) here with ring womb and a stinking dead lamb inside yesterday morning.
Normally I can manage to open ring womb 'manually' but this was like a one inch, solid ring of leather.
Gave her a dose of calcium and some time. At 2am she was trying to push and still ringed up like a rock. I managed to open her up a touch, got covered in 'stinking juice', used 2 bottles of lube and got nowhere.
At 3am she had an injection of lead
My sympathies......been there done that. On the positive side I bet it stopped you biting your nails for a while?Had a 3 or 4 cropper (home bred) here with ring womb and a stinking dead lamb inside yesterday morning.
Normally I can manage to open ring womb 'manually' but this was like a one inch, solid ring of leather.
Gave her a dose of calcium and some time. At 2am she was trying to push and still ringed up like a rock. I managed to open her up a touch, got covered in 'stinking juice', used 2 bottles of lube and got nowhere.
At 3am she had an injection of lead
- Location
- N.Lincs
Sure did ?
The old girl was quite distressed by the end, she must have had 'underlying issues' to coin the phrase that seems to be used all too frequently at the moment.
muleman
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About 10pm one night I had a ewe with blood on tail and restless in my outside lambers, it had been like that since mid afternoon, i got her in and put her in a pen and investigated, ringwomb, it was when we were very busy lambing and i was getting tired, i thought what do i do now, i remembered what id seen on forum, gave her a jab of calcium, thought I'd give her a hour to open a bit so went in for my supper, fell asleep in chair, woke up about 3am and remembered about ewe, rushed outside and found the ewe with 2 lambs suckling!
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Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Very similar experience here
livestock 1
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I’ve dosed them all with calcium luckily
livestock 1
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Calcium is one of them underrated things
Rod Dumbreck
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where is everyone getting their calcium from? Our lambing supplies order came back with none and we were told they had stopped making it, which seems crazy
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Blue top Claciject is gone...
But you can still get Red top. (it's twice the strength, so use half as much... it is also Calcium only - has no Glucose like Blue top)
livestock 1
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I’ve been injecting inlamb ewes with staggers 25/35 ml red top and none have ejected their lambs as abortion surprisingly
had a ringwomb other night, calcium an waited a few hours, laid correctly but one leg slight back. Just managed to slip a rope up with one finger and bring leg forward. She was pushing which helped. Lambs dead but ewe doing ok with another lamb on. I like ropes for difficult ones.
Norfolk Hill Farmer
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Been trying to mimic blue top since it disappeared, by giving some red top with a little mag and a drink of cheap tld remedy. Fairly good results so far.
Me too, always carry one in my top pocket. Especially now when we are lambing hoggs?
livestock 1
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Just lambed one a few minutes ago bought a bought ewe had twin lamb when she arrived. Had 2/3 doses of the red top until she came around. How she’s not spat the lambs out I have no idea.