Hogget ewe dried up

jd06

His all.
Have a Hogg ewe that lambd sat., she had plenty of milk at the time but has since dried up nearly anything
She was well fed for 5 weeks prior and also had a handy lemming
I gave her oxytocin put extra soya on her nuts and let her out during the day. She's in great order but little or not milk


Will she come back on the milk or is it too late now
Anything suggestions

rangler1

jd06 wrote: »

His all.
Have a Hogg ewe that lambd sat., she had plenty of milk at the time but has since dried up nearly anything
She was well fed for 5 weeks prior and also had a handy lemming
I gave her oxytocin put extra soya on her nuts and let her out during the day. She's in great order but little or not milk


Will she come back on the milk or is it too late now
Anything suggestions

If that happens here, it's usually because of an infection after lambing, is she eating alright.
Did you take her temperature.
If there was something wrong with the ration, you'd have other sheep short of milk,
It takes 10 days to show the benefit of adding soya to a poor ration.
If it's none of that, you can only mark her for culling.

jd06

rangler1 wrote: »

If that happens here, it's usually because of an infection after lambing, is she eating alright.
Did you take her temperature.
If there was something wrong with the ration, you'd have other sheep short of milk,
It takes 10 days to show the benefit of adding soya to a poor ration.
If it's none of that, you can only mark her for culling.

Ya took her temp and shes eating fine
I changed from ration to nuts the day she lambed
They were both very good feed

rangler1

jd06 wrote: »

Ya took her temp and shes eating fine
I changed from ration to nuts the day she lambed
They were both very good feed

As I said, there'd be more than her short of milk if the feed was poor, she might improve, but I'd be getting rid

arctictree

Maybe a silly question but how would you spot a ewe that's short of milk?

rangler1

arctictree wrote: »

Maybe a silly question but how would you spot a ewe that's short of milk?

Lambs don't be long telling you, offer them a bottle and they'll take it if they need it, They'll be empty and cold looking, taking the bottle confirms it

Donegalforever

I had this problem with one ewe for two years and I could not find the cause.
The ewe seemed to have milk after the lambs were born and for sometime afterwards but then dried up, with the result that the lambs lost a lot of weight and had to be bottled fed.
In my case I sold the ewe in the Mart as a fat ewe.

Green farmer

If she had big nipples the lamb mightn't been able to suck or could be a generic thing with lambs mouth being a bad suck. Other thing with hoggets are some won't stand still for lamb and keep turning when lamb tries to suck.