Since she had poor nutrition before she came to your place, and then probably a sudden change to good food, it could have triggered it. Once a ewe is comatose, I don't think she can be saved, but if you can help her before that point, she can be saved with calcium supplementation. Good luck with bottle raising that lamb, you might look around and see if anyone in your area has unpasteurized goat milk for sale, since it's better than the powdered milk replacer.
Julian
At 11:41 AM 3/10/2005, you wrote:
Well the first night with mama and baby in the coral went very wrong. In mamas attempts to escape she (must have) run head first into the fence and broke her neck. I had to out put her down this AM.
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