Lambing bits and pieces list

Connemara Farmer

My lot won't be lambing until the end of March - save the ones I put with the ram to keep him quiet.

What bits and pieces do ye all have handy for the job?

Being a "rather look at it than look for it" type I'll have

Iodine
Rings
Management tags
Stomach tube
Lambing aid/rope
Spray marker
Colostrum
Thermometer
Stockholm tar

Notebook
Patience

Gloves
Lube
Twin lamb type remedy
Needles & syringes
Calciject

Hot water bottle & camping stove to aid revival

Pre lambing
Heptevac P+
Fluke & worm dose

Post lambing
White dose
Cobalt
Vector for ticks
Something for flies

Debating whether I'll bother with Spectam, hope to lamb inside.

Missing anything?

razor8

Think you have nearly everything there

Always have an antibiotic at the ready and something for listeriosis like engemycin,

Connemara Farmer

Another addition from Twitter, torch and batteries, but I already have that well taken care of, some might say to fetish levels!

orm0nd

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

My lot won't be lambing until the end of March - save the ones I put with the ram to keep him quiet.

What bits and pieces do ye all have handy for the job?

Being a "rather look at it than look for it" type I'll have

Iodine
Rings
Management tags
Stomach tube
Lambing aid/rope
Spray marker
Colostrum
Thermometer
Stockholm tar

Notebook
Patience

Gloves
Lube
Twin lamb type remedy
Needles & syringes
Calciject

Hot water bottle & camping stove to aid revival

Pre lambing
Heptevac P+
Fluke & worm dose

Post lambing
White dose
Cobalt
Vector for ticks
Something for flies

Debating whether I'll bother with Spectam, hope to lamb inside.

Missing anything?

straw, more straw and still more straw,

maybe some lime as well, ,

due to blast off in the next few days here & now we always give spectam sc

previously we only used it from march onwards

different colour spray marker for singles, twins and triplets.

Connemara Farmer

Straw and lime on the list too, didn't put in OP though.

Nekarsulm

Prolapse harness. Just in case.
Coffee, lots of coffee.



That's just for the shepard!

Connemara Farmer

Prolapse not an issue here thank God, don't think I can even recall one case tbh.

Farrell

Lamb jackets here.
Also give 5ml vitamin drench on day 2 (easy done when small numbers)

razor8

Falcon carbolic soap to prevent chapped hands

fanadman1

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Another addition from Twitter, torch and batteries, but I already have that well taken care of, some might say to fetish levels!

Gave up on the torch last year, now i use a led lenser h7r.2 straped to my head, best thing i ever spent money on to be honest great light can count sheep in the field with it and you still have both hands to work.

tabby aspreme

A couple of empty cully and sully type soup containers , perfect for milking ewes into. A bottle of Oxytocin, and if all else fails a book of cheques signed for 20 quid.

AntrimGlens

Alamycin
Pen Strep - in case of dead lambs or retained cleaning
Alamycin Spray - for ewes feet if scald or footrot in existence. Do her while you have a hold of her before she goes to the field.
Vit E - in case of white muscle disease
Buscopan - in event of a ewe beginning to prolapse
Large stitching needle and white tape for same purpose
Lamb drinking bottle (non vac) and teats
Penknife or decent knife for skinning

Jaysus looking at these lists you'd think we were all in the middle of the Crimean war and hospital field tents were raided, instead of the serene lambing shed

eire23

Anyone here using hibitane on navals instead of iodine?
Using a 10% iodine solution at the moment but the navals do seem to get fierce brittle and crack. Had a handfull of cases of joint ill last year and i put it down to that, could be way off the mark though.

razor8

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Alamycin
Pen Strep - in case of dead lambs or retained cleaning
Alamycin Spray - for ewes feet if scald or footrot in existence. Do her while you have a hold of her before she goes to the field.
Vit E - in case of white muscle disease
Buscopan - in event of a ewe beginning to prolapse
Large stitching needle and white tape for same purpose
Lamb drinking bottle (non vac) and teats
Penknife or decent knife for skinning

Jaysus looking at these lists you'd think we were all in the middle of the Crimean war and hospital field tents were raided, instead of the serene lambing shed

Never heard of buscopan? Is it similar to metacam or how is it supposed to work?

ganmo

emm?
milk replacer
theres a injectible drug that opens up a lambs lungs...used it a few years ago and i was amazed how well it worked
overalls + gloves

rangler1

eire23 wrote: »

Anyone here using hibitane on navals instead of iodine?
Using a 10% iodine solution at the moment but the navals do seem to get fierce brittle and crack. Had a handfull of cases of joint ill last year and i put it down to that, could be way off the mark though.

I recommended hibitane + here on boards last year, we used it because the navels were cracking with iodine too, we mix it at 10 parts water to 1 part hibitane+ ..... you get it from a vet, make sure that its hibitane +....the + is important

tom_k

Great thread. Been stocking up here in anticipation of the season and previous posts have reminded me of a few things.

davidk1394

Shur a warm box for the sick lads.. luckily we have an automatic feeder to fed any few pets .. do people tag lambs when they're born.. we lamb 550 and dont tag or match sheep with lambs.. just lamb tthm abd notch aby sheep with 1 tit or a poor mother... she'd be turned into a kebab a few months later!!

AntrimGlens

razor8 wrote: »

Never heard of buscopan? Is it similar to metacam or how is it supposed to work?

Buscopan is actually designed for use in horses primarily but stops abdominal cramps and aids treatment of colic but its the only thing i can find that stops the ewe pressing enough when you're trying to replace the prolapse. Stops the urge to pee, whereas Metacam is an anti inflammatory.

orm0nd

davidk1394 wrote: »

Shur a warm box for the sick lads.. luckily we have an automatic feeder to fed any few pets .. do people tag lambs when they're born.. we lamb 550 and dont tag or match sheep with lambs.. just lamb tthm abd notch aby sheep with 1 tit or a poor mother... she'd be turned into a kebab a few months later!!

we use marker spray to match up lambs and mothers , find it invaluable if we have to bring a lamb back indoors,

ear notch possible replacement ewe lambs, if culled for any reason they get a red management tag, as do any ewes for culling

Connemara Farmer

orm0nd wrote: »

we use marker spray to match up lambs and mothers , find it invaluable if we have to bring a lamb back indoors,

ear notch possible replacement ewe lambs, if culled for any reason they get a red management tag, as do any ewes for culling

I'm going to management tag mine at birth and match to ewe tag. Find with blackies the spray marker doesn't work well like it would on sheep like the few cheviots I have. Just tends to look a mess after a few weeks.

razor8

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Buscopan is actually designed for use in horses primarily but stops abdominal cramps and aids treatment of colic but its the only thing i can find that stops the ewe pressing enough when you're trying to replace the prolapse. Stops the urge to pee, whereas Metacam is an anti inflammatory.

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Read a brief bit on it, good to know, thanks