One of the best books I've ever read is Laura Lawson's "Managing Your Ewe and Her Newborn Lambs" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096339231X/critterhavenesta). I take it out to the barn and read it as a refresher when I'm waiting for a birth to happen. It has excellent pictures of malpresentations and gives really good instructions on what to do if your ewe gets into trouble. It describes the stages of labor, how long each stage lasts, and what to look for. Every shepherd eventually needs to pull a badly presented lamb and her book really helps you sort out the limbs and envision how they all fit together as you are blindly rummaging around inside the ewe's birth canal searching for a leg.
Carol
At 07:40 PM 7/5/2004 -0700, you wrote:
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.
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