Mary:
Thanks for mentioning the heat lamp. It is part 0f the "furnishings" in
the lambing pens so I forgot about it. I have found over the years that
the lamp needs to be high enough that Mama can get her butt under it
without burning her wool.. After lambing the heat lamp sure calms the
ewes down, they will just back into it and sway back and forth!!!
Really funny to watch. I use the red lamps, the clear ones can put off
too much heat..
Mary Swindell wrote:
Dave,
I give the CD/T shots to the lambs subcutaneously in the loose skin near
their underarm (foreleg, that is). Somebody asked what CD/T is. It is
a combination shot. The first part (the "CD") is for Clostridium
Perfringens types C and D (C and D being the most common strains of what
is usually known as "overeating disease"). The second part (the "T") is
a Tetnus shot, which protects lambs from tetnus they might get from
banding or castration, tail docking, umbilical infections, or other
sources.
Also, Cecil Bearden was exactly right in his list of critical lambing
supplies. Those are the most important things to have on hand. I also
have a microwaveable heating pad to warm up cold (hypothermic) lambs if
needed. And I have a heat lamp to use on lambing pens with cold weak
lambs. Tube feeding and warming up a weak lamb can save his life.
Mary Swindell
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2. CDT (Curtis Yeschke)
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6. Re: Lambing kit on a budget (Dave Andrus)
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:28:19 -0600
From: Mary Swindell
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Subject: [Blackbelly] CD/T Shots
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You can also give CD/T shots to the lambs after they are born,
instead of giving the shots to their mothers. I give my new lambs
two CD/T shots. The first at 2 weeks old, and the second at 4 weeks
old. I use the Bar-Vac brand and give 2 CCs subcutaneously per lamb
each time. I do not vaccinate my adult ewes prior to lambing.
Mary Swindell
At 05:01 PM 1/24/2010, you wrote:
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>Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:39:18 -0700
>From: "Dave Andrus"
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>Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] CDT shots
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>My ewes are going to start to lamb in about 30 days is it too late to
give
>them CDT shots?
>
>TIA,
>
>Dave
>
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:33:10 -0600
From: Curtis Yeschke
To: "blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info"
Subject: [Blackbelly] CDT
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How about this: I didn't even know what CDT was. Needless to say,
that's one shot they don't get. I use a syringe as a drench, minus the
needle, for ivomac, the cheap, off brand. The only shots that I give
are antibiotics, that's if they have snotty noses or look "off", and B-
complex, if I think they need that extra boost of energy to help them
pull out of it. So far, I've lost only one sheep to worms, and she was
an auction house buy, and one to an unknown illness, again, auction
house buy...though there are quite a few losses due to coyotes. I
haven't lost any since because they get antibiotics, worker, and B-
complex when they are unloaded.
Curtis
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:43:21 -0700
From: "Dave Andrus"
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Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] CD/T Shots
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Mary,
Where do you give the injection?
Dave
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From: "Mary Swindell"
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Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:28 PM
Subject: [Blackbelly] CD/T Shots
> You can also give CD/T shots to the lambs after they are born,
instead of
> giving the shots to their mothers. I give my new lambs two CD/T shots.
> The first at 2 weeks old, and the second at 4
