It appears that this is a legitimate poll, and these folks really need
our help as fellow livestock owners and breeders and pet owners. We
have had the same type of problem here in OK with humane organizations
trying to tell a donkey rescue org how to care of their animals. I am
not a Donkey expert, but it appears that if a Donkey has been starved
and then gets more than enough food it will founder. The humane org was
upset that hay was not out all the time. Most of these organizations
are manned by people with more money than brains, and think that hay
flows from a spout like water.. I lost a ewe, one of my bottle
raised ones, Friday. She stopped eating. first thought was worms, or
some infection. I wormed her and gave antibiotics 10 days ago, and she
improved. I was ready to doctor her again Friday morning, and found her
dead. She was autopsied by my vet. He found plenty of fat around the
kidneys indicating that she was in great shape, and did not want for
food. I had been concerned as hay is in short supply, and I have been
limiting access to hay and also to wheat grazing. We found a blockage
in the stomach. This blockage was caused by a tear strip and string
from a sack of Ivomec feed type wormer. I use it to worm them in the
feed. This type was really palatable as it used milk replacer as a
medium for the drug. A few weeks ago, this sack was in my shop and not
in a closed barrel. The sheep got into the shop to eat the cat food,
and got into the sack of wormer and ate over half of it. The wormer is
not really toxic, but the tear strip is. Since this was a bottle raised
sheep, she had an affinity for milk replacer. She also did not know not
to eat paper and string, as the normally raised animals do not mess with
baler twine or net wrap. ( just an observation)
Sorry for the long post, but we need to support our fellow farmers, and
I just want the rest of you to benefit from this bad experience with
feed sacks. I just hate losing any one of my sheep, bottle baby or
not. I might also add that we found she was pregnant and probably would
have lambed about the middle of Feb when it is the worst weather here in
OK!
Good luck to all of you and Happy New Year.!!
Cecil in OKla
On 1/3/2012 1:06 AM, Terry wrote:
I cannot get into any archived posts-- and I need some information that I
recall was posted several yaars ago.. A member of this group, added copper to
her sheep diet, and the herd health improved- based on a book that was written,
I believe, by someone from New Zealand or Australia. Just finding the
information source used would be wonderful--
also, there is a poll that would be beneficial to a case I am working on/for.
The case is going to set precedents, for sure
Please answer this poll only as regards livestock, not pets. The Baileys'
hearing is tomorrow, so we need as many responses as we can get as quickly as
possible. Please post this wherever people with livestock are likely to see it.
http://justice4pnw.weebly.com/polls.html;
Thanks, all, and Happy New Year
Terry W Ohio
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