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sheep milk poison lambs?

  • 14-04-2016 12:55pm
    #1
    derferjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    Hi I am down to my last few ewes to lamb and had a bodder with one last night had to bring her in and take the 2 lamb from her.
    All seamed grand as I went to bed last only to wake up this morning and find one of the lambs dead.
    Couldn't understand it
    Then I got the second one over to the mother to let it suck incase it was down to not getting the spin during the night
    came back 20min later and second lamb dead?????

    Any advise???


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  • #2
    FineFilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭FineFilly


    any chance she lay on lambs or hurt them ?did you milk her to make sure her milk is down?


  • #3
    derferjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭derferjam


    FineFilly wrote: »
    any chance she lay on lambs or hurt them ?did you milk her to make sure her milk is down?
    yeah I drew milk from her and for the stupid git to have sat on both of them would take some doing as the pen is 5x5ft anot it would mean sitting on the second 20 minutes after I removed the first one.


  • #4
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    Any chance she kept circling and wouldn't let the lambs feed and or aggressively pushed them away.


  • #5
    derferjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭derferjam


    Green farmer wrote: »
    Any chance she kept circling and wouldn't let the lambs feed and or aggressively pushed them away.

    No she seamed at ease with them that night and was content to let me hold the fìrst one up tò suck that morning and there were no traces of circles in the straw.


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