Lambing

farawaygrass

Saw a ewe hogget getting sick this evening, white water bag out. Said I’d leave her a while and done another odd job. Came back and saw the lamb on the ground, lifeless. Heart beating but not breathing. Tried my best but no look. No bag over it’s head although it might have been licked off by the ewe, after it was too late. It’s the second time I caught a lamb this year with heart beating but not breathing, although the first one did have bag over it’s had.

I wonder are them lamb resuscitation Kits good for a situation like this?

arctictree

I feckin hate when that happens. Been through it myself a couple of times, steam still coming off the lamb. Sometimes you watch them for ages, turn your back and then they lamb.

Dinzee Conlee

Did someone here have a issue with the lambing bags being a bit too thick or something one year? I have it in my head that a mineral fixed it for em - maybe a mineral bucket or lick or something?

k mac

Had a hogget lambed with twins sunday night and she has no milk. Had to pull one of the lambs so she was slow to stand and had to bottle her for the first day, checked after lambing and the other lamb got colustrum it must be after that she dried up. Was half expected it as the hogget was very fat and i had restricted her feed the last few weeks due to this so hence no milk. gave her 2cc of oxytocin but i know this is probably not much benefit because its a case of not having milk and not that she is not letting it down. Question i have is i got them out to grass today for 4 hours as the weather allowed hoping that would get the milk going, i have been giving the 2 lambs feeds from bottles to help keep them going but they have no interest in the bottle barely touching it, tried the hogget there again and still has no milk but i am thinking is she producing small amounts and the lambs are sucking her dry and that is why they have no interest in the bottle. Am i better leaving them without the bottle and see how they go. The lambs are fairly bright and warm surely if they were getting nothing from the teat they would be eager for the bottle.

wrangler

Iknow it's different on other farms but we find that if a lamb is on a ewe it'd die of the hunger before it'd drink lamlac. topping up lambs never works here for some reason, We have to take them off the ewe

All you can do is watch them

k mac

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118917370#Comment_118917370

Thanks for the advice. I am giving the ewe about a kg of meal a day and hay when in and if weather allows let her out to grass and and get milk in her. Even if it was wet tomorrow i might be best let her and the lambs out to the grass, they are charolais lambs so bare enough but hunger with no milk might kill them before the wet/cold. Ideally if i could let the ewe out on her own but that won't work will be bawling at the gate looking for the lambs

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118917407#Comment_118917407

It's difficult to assess charolais lambs too, I see them out in the field on a wet day and you'd be ashamed of them the way they humped up and cold, yet when I put my hand under their belly it feels full. They're usually alright then by a week old, they're hungry lambs but they thrive fierce well if they get enough milk

Weather is mild now, I'd let them out and monitor them for a few hours so the ewe can get some grass in

k mac

Seems to have a small bit of milk tonight and got about 100ml of frisky into the weaker lamb. Think I will leave them for the night and let them out in the morning

arctictree

I'd tube the lambs and then leave them in a pen beside the ewe for a few hours where they can't get at her. Then check her for milk.

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118917208#Comment_118917208

If shes starting to let down milk put her out in the day and tube the lambs if you can. Another shot of oxytocin too might help