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Lamb with broken leg

arctictree · 2015-03-04 21:23:56

Just had a 4 day old lamb with a broken leg. Don't know how it happened but the lowest joint on the left back leg seemed to be in bits. He was under a bush with the ewe over the other side of the field with the other lamb. So I put a splint on him and fed him 200ml volostrom as he seemed a bit thin. Anyone know what the…

04-03-2015 10:23PM

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Just had a 4 day old lamb with a broken leg. Don't know how it happened but the lowest joint on the left back leg seemed to be in bits. He was under a bush with the ewe over the other side of the field with the other lamb.

So I put a splint on him and fed him 200ml volostrom as he seemed a bit thin. Anyone know what the likely outcome is? Am I wasting my time?

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#2 04-03-2015 11:00PM

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Keep him in if possible and the on ewe, but should be ok as pet either. I could never get them to survive outside, would say get a plaster pack from vet and put on, very easy to do and normally successful. Just make sure take it off on time as leg can grow and cause infection.

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Lambs heal well. I had to set two broken hind legs in the one lamb once and it did well.

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