yea, liquid lifeaid would be good, that's what I meant by twin lamb remedy, it makes them drink and perks them up.
I shouldn't prescribe here sojust ask your vet for an antiinflammatory for pain after a hard lambing. It seems to work very well, really perks them up too.
An infection after manipulating a lamb is quite common so prevention is better than trying to cure them after they get sick
No sign of mastitis nice drop of milk, lamb doing well. She is standing this morning again and did nibble at some Ivy.
Was thinking of getting some Liquid Lifeaid type stuff for her - would that help her ?
What do you usually use for pain relief as a matter of interest ?
Yeah she has loads of milk and don't think it was there was that much trauma at lambing either in fairness.
Give her Ivy and some twin lamb remedy if you have it, Penicillin is probably the best antibiotiic, I presume that's what Dipen is.
Check for mastitis, always use antibiotic AND painrelief after manipulating a lamb, ewes will lie on lambs when in pain/ off form
Has she got milk? Any damage or trauma at lambing?
Ewe here lambed yesterday evening and notice she's in bad form there now. Single lamb I had to pull as 1 leg was bent back. She wasn't sick for long.
She ate nuts at 4 today but didn't eat much hay.
I gave her a shot of Dipen there now as it's all I have to hand.
Not sure what might be up with her or what else I could give her.
Any advice wud be very much appreciated. Thanks
thanks wrangler. If we are on about the same automatic weight crate and drafter, it was up on 20k last year
We've the standard scales, and its fine for manual drafting through the side gates on the scales itself but it wouldn't be as easy as an ordinary drafting gate. You can get an automatic drafter for it, but the scales and drafter was costing about €7000 (over ten yeara ago) including a fancy weighclock that'd operate the drafter
Depends on weather. I’ve put ewes lambing straight out to small sheltered field if weather good. Strong lambs go out after 24 hours even in poor weather once I know has lots of milk & lambs are full. Lots of variables really
its recommended 1 pen per 8/10 ewes
For anyone here that has the prattley manual weight crate/drafter, is it wide enough to run sheep through it too for drafting?
I saw it the item myself a year ago but can’t picture the size of it now
Let them out after 2 days once it’s dry if u have grass and lambs are suckling . They are healthier outside once they are dry.
How soon after lambing on average are ye getting to let out the ewes and lambs this year.
Just thinking ahead to when I reach capacity in individual pens.
Haven't been talking to him but I'd imagine it's like prolapses, that you'd get good and bad years. he posted on facebook that he had 9 cases in 600 ewes well before the lambng started
I'm considering creeping my lambs this year, I have horned ewes so do people find issues with them getting caught in the various types of creep feeders out there? Are there any that would be more suitable than others? Thanks
weren’t too much texel in them, half bred at the most. Did you’re neighbour get to the bottom of it or change anything for this year?
i heard molassess is supposed to be good at preventing it, a few lifleline buckets might do
A local here was the same last year, never had anything like it before, was told to reduce silage and feed more meal, silage was extremely good.
Were they all texel, they're the only ones do it here, our pedigree vendeens often had 4 or 5 in them and never put out their guts and tehy were all overfat
i have a ewe with a hard lump in her elder and no milk being produced on the side, milk on the other alright. the spin is soft and elder warm not cold , almost as if it were full of milk and ready to be milked.
Had awful trouble last year with housed triplet bearing ewes putting out their guts. Now they had a silage bale in a round feeder so couldn’t restrict it. I’m putting it down to too much silage and lack of excercise.
be careful if they are in very good condition
12 weeks, but they'd be footbathed every four weeks.
Other than that, they are no problem.
Would housing triplet ewes 7 weeks out from lambing be to long indoors ? Might leave them another week out but after that I’d like to get them in . How long do you folks house your ewes pre lambing ?
If you have a harness, put it on her.
Didn't give antibiotics until this morning. I do see an improvement in her general demeanour but still has occasional moments of straining..Will see how she gets through the night and make a call in the morning
If she doesn't improve within 24 hrs she'd need a vet. if you injected her this morning you should see an improvement this evening. Do you use a thermometer, areduction in temperature is always a good indicator of whether the antibiotic is working or not.
Did you give her any antibiotic on thursday, we'd always give an antibiotic after such a lambing
Last question..lambs are at her a lot but not bleating or anything so probably getting just about enough..do I hold tight and hope her milk improves as she does....or should I try them with a little bit of milk to supplement them for a few days
I did ..just the 2 big lambs..thanks..I assume unless.she does actually prolapse there.is.not any need for vet..
Penicillin should clear it up and metacam will help her too,
I presume you checked for a third lamb when you were lambing her
Have a first time lamber here that.lambed Thursday night. Had twins that were coming together but I managed to get one back and got them.out relatively easily..was fine yesterday as far as I could see..this morning a little off colour and I noticed lambs sucking a lot as if not getting enough.. around lunchtime she started straining on and off..maybe 3 pushes at a timeethen stops..hasn't pushed out anything
Am fairly.sure she cleaned normally at the time but I assume she has an infection..other than penicillin/ antibiotics is.there anything else I can do? Have metacam which I could give for pain/inflammation
On the feeder, if you put a mesh in front they will eat through it and wont waste so much. a fella in mayo has a serious job done with mesh that drops onto silage. Heres a link to it https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/are-your-ewes-wasting-silage-check-out-how-this-farmer-overcame-this-problem/
Someone else might have a cheaper/easier method
Around 12/14 i think so you are better off with a round
