Thanks very much Mark, Bonnie, and Oneta for your ideas. I tried milk
replacement yesterday and last night with a little success. I searched
for a fetus (nothing), palapated the udder (no lumps or pain), tried to
express milk (no luck), gave moma a penicilin shot (diarhhea), fed her
fresh clover (she loved it), and prayed.
This morning the lambs are bright and cheery, take a little bottle milk,
and then they go and suckle moma! Go figure!
Maybe this ewe just has an extraordinarily large udder and despite long
observation I never saw any udder action until this morning. And maybe
I am just a paronoid shepherd.
I put them all out to pasture with the others.
Thanks everyone. What a great forum.
Jerry
Windmill Farms LLC
Picayune, Mississippi
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