We had a lamb born dead this morning. This is our first round of lambing, so we are
new to this. The first two ewes delivered their single lambs just fine. We think this
lamb was in labor on Sunday by watching its behavior throughout the day, though it
would go and graze now and then. This morning she had part of the sack/afterbirth,
whatever you call it, hanging out of her, this was at 7 a.m. Finally the feet starting
coming out and I could tell that it was the front feet. It took a while but the head
started coming out. Once the neck was out we knew it was dead from the way it hung
there. After she completely delivered it she did lick it and nudge it to get it to get
up. We took the lamb and buried it. When she delivered the afterbirth she would not
leave the afterbirth, just stood there looking at it. Since we are pretty sure she was
in labor the day before is that too long a time to be in labor and could that be the
reason it died? It looked full term, fully developed. I!
could not have gotten close enough to her to pull it once we knew it was dead. I did
approach her but she walked away from me quickly, and I could tell from her eyes me
being there was stressing her. She fully delivered the lamb around 9 a.m.
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