Lambing going wrong !!

rangler1 · 31-03-2017 01:22PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Do that here myself, without the water in the ear, but all these lambs are ones I find the following morning. I'd be here until late at night, but when I'd arrive at 7.30 the following morning, you'd find them, but cannt be here 24 hrs a day. Frustrating really. Just a big issue here this year. Should add Lab said suspected aphexia, Because everything else was negative.

Maybe that one smothered, but I'd be testing 3 or 4 along with the afterbirth to get a diagnoses.
Seeing that you have problem with lethargic lambs, you should really put in good quality mineral boluses a month before they lamb, I wouldn't trust to use proper minerals, they'll use the cheapest and as for buckets, the ewe could have got too much or too little and you'd never know which or even none at all.
Animax is costing 1.40/ewe here and we haven't had one smothered out of a lot of lambs

Lambman · 31-03-2017 02:39PM

Happened me once here green farmer same thing I missed the lambing found her with 1 up and sucking the other were it lambed still inside the sac... I use lick buckets here and I know some people will say it leaves the sac 2 strong for the lamb till break thru but I don't believe it at all!

Green farmer · 31-03-2017 02:45PM

Maybe it is the minerals lads. Makes sense alright. Previous years I'd have always used buckets, but this year because Theyve got all their nutrition from meal I thought it would have covered it. But maybe it hasn't now. I've put in the buckets in now anyway ( was keeping them for the field ) , but majority of flock lambed, so mightn't be able to know for sure. Just something else to change for next year.

razor8 · 31-03-2017 08:16PM

Green farmer wrote: »

That might be it lads, I just don't know , has me baffled. It's the number one killer here this year. I sent a few to the labs and no virus found. The lab report said suspected asphyxia. I don't have the lick buckets in with them , but I'll change that and put some in today. They're on the meal and straw only diet, so I thought they'd be getting enough vitamins from that. They'll all fully grown strong lambs . Thought it might have settled as lambing progressed. I'll just drive on and see what falls out in the wash.

I asked about the lick buckets because I used the yellow ones a few years ago and had too many lambs smothering. The sack was like leather and never used them since. Bolus ewes 4-6 weeks pre lambing now

Green farmer · 31-03-2017 10:08PM

Will the time ever come, where farming doesn't throw something new at you

charolais0153 · 31-03-2017 10:22PM

Such a **** week here, two ewes got mastitis, both with twins( one is on the way out:( )??? And two others got pneumonia. The lambs don't relyy seem to be thriving to my eyes either, the seem that bit wooly and there still 4 ewes left to lamb with no sign as of yet

Lambing going wrong !!

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