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Watery mouth

  • 05-05-2014 1:36pm
    #1
    Green farmer
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    Nearly finished lambing here. Just a handfull of stragglers left. Had a weak lamb born yesterday, not standing. I've been feeding it and keeping it warm but watery mouth has developed.the hot water bottle is underneath it and tubing lamb, antibiotics given as well. Any one much success in turning them around post watery mouth ? Or is the outcome inevitable. ?


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    rangler1
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Nearly finished lambing here. Just a handfull of stragglers left. Had a weak lamb born yesterday, not standing. I've been feeding it and keeping it warm but watery mouth has developed.the hot water bottle is underneath it and tubing lamb, antibiotics given as well. Any one much success in turning them around post watery mouth ? Or is the outcome inevitable. ?

    I've never cured one, not even a normal size lamb.....wouldn't have too many of them...tg


  • #3
    Green farmer
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    Game over here. Out of a ewe lamb. I found him yesterday morning not standing and cast on his side, had kicked all the straw away and laying on concrete stab.so didn't know how long he was without colostrum before I found him.
    I suppose it sums up the trouble of letting a few ewe lambs to ram .


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    rangler1
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Game over here. Out of a ewe lamb. I found him yesterday morning not standing and cast on his side, had kicked all the straw away and laying on concrete stab.so didn't know how long he was without colostrum before I found him.
    I suppose it sums up the trouble of letting a few ewe lambs to ram .

    Indeed you'll get mature ewes that'll turn their back on their lamb too.
    ''joys of farming''


  • #5
    Green farmer
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    I'm only at it a short few years, but often wonder about being a store lamb farmer instead. Up at 3.am last night tubing the lamb and refilling his hot water bottle, only to suffer defeat. The "joys of it alright" , all will be forgotten with a good day at the mart in august hopefully !!!


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    Username John
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    I'm only at it a short few years, but often wonder about being a store lamb farmer instead. Up at 3.am last night tubing the lamb and refilling his hot water bottle, only to suffer defeat. The "joys of it alright" , all will be forgotten with a good day at the mart in august hopefully !!!

    Was in exactly the same boat / frame of mind there a while ago GreenFarmer. I started a thread on store lambs there a while back...
    Still debating in my head what to do, but I guess the bad memories of lambing have faded in the spring sun...
    :)


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    rangler1
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    Username John wrote: »
    Was in exactly the same boat / frame of mind there a while ago GreenFarmer. I started a thread on store lambs there a while back...
    Still debating in my head what to do, but I guess the bad memories of lambing have faded in the spring sun...
    :)

    I was home just before dark last night and checked the weaned purebred ewes, they're fond of going on their back....went at eight this morning and there was one on her back dead and the right hip eaten off her.....she was probably alive when she was being eaten....sickening

    ''joys of farming''


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    Username John
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    I was home just before dark last night and checked the weaned purebred ewes, they're fond of going on their back....went at eight this morning and there was one on her back dead and the right hip eaten off her.....she was probably alive when she was being eaten....sickening

    ''joys of farming''

    That is sickening... :(

    It is a horrible feeling when you see em on their back across the field, and yer hoping and praying to see a leg kick as you run over, but sometimes... no more movement :(


  • #9
    fanadman1
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    Username John wrote: »
    That is sickening... :(

    It is a horrible feeling when you see em on their back across the field, and yer hoping and praying to see a leg kick as you run over, but sometimes... no more movement :(

    I know im to late for this one but I worked on a farm last year with 1000 ewes. he treated each and every lamb with spectrum scour halt at the same time as they were being diped for the navel. This had great success for him even with the bad spring they had no lambs to suffering with watery mouth


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