You noted that most of your lambs were rams. It was raining. Were your
sheep bunched together for long periods. I had this same thing happen
last winter, only I just found the lambs dead. There were 6 rams that I
knew of 7 dead ones. I determined sex from memory after I started
looking for
Is it possible that with all the rain and the lambs being young that
they may have developed a pneumonia?
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Cathy Mayton
Leap'N Lambs
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I do not know on my guy. He never had a wispy
breathing sound like I have heard on other animals
with lung problems. I wish I had a vet in my area
that did sheep in case this shows up again. It was
very strange on my one guy. Even odder is he was a
twin and his sister is one of the biggest lambs I
I am just checking. I have been repling to several of
the emails on lambs, etc the last few days and have
not seen any of my post come up. Would you guys let me
know if this is coming through ok.
Thanks
OJ in OK
Oneta and The Gang
www.johnsonquarterhorses.com
Don't tell GOD what to do,
>
> I had one ram do the same. fine one day and then
> sick
> and gone in only a few days. all my other lambs are
> happy, bouncy and I even have some new lambs. The
> one
> I lost was apx 6 months. I am in central OK and we
> have had tons of rain. I would like to see what
> everyone else knows
There is a chronic pneumonia and an acute pneumonia - the acute can kill
very quickly, although usually at the very end you can hear the
raspy/wheezing in the lungs if you listen closely to the breathing. I had
one very large, healthy ewe stop eating one night and was dead the next
night from wha
> On my guys here in OK, he ate well, drank well, they
> are wormed regular, he was with the other weanling
> lambs and he was perky one day and droopy eyed, and
> sluggish the next. No runs, no snot, nothing. I went
> to feed the pm feeding and he was gone. That was
> seveeral weeks ago and I ha
> our yearling we butcherd this year had a great set
> of
> horns. I put him in the back, let the bugs clean him
> and listed him as naturally cleaned and started it
> at
> 10.00 and got 75.00. that paid for the butchering.
> have no idea what someone would do with it but hey I
> did not want his
I don't think I've seen clostridium - "overeaters disease" mentioned.
My apologies if I missed something. Kills the biggest and best lambs
quickly and apparently without a lot of symptoms. Good luck to you.
I've screamed into my pillow many times over the mysterious loss of
sheep, but this ga
I first ran across this item in an article by a holistic DVM in Stockman
Grass Farmer magazine. It was an excellent series of articles on the
importance of minerals. He said he couldn't create a holistic herd
health program without a product such as this.
That's a pretty broad statement, but
A couple of years ago we put some rams out on a neighbors pasture and fed
them grain about 2 times a week. they had been wormed. But we lost 3 of
them. They just dropped dead. Figured out it was anemia. They were not
getting enough protein from the grass but yet looked fat and sassy. Perhaps
th
Nancy,
That is very tragic. I would like to mention that anemia comes in many
disguises, which is why I think reliance on eye membrane color isn't the
best judge of worm burden. Anemia can be caused by cobalt deficiency,
too little copper or too much molybdenum as well as haemonchus contortus
Cecil, is it usual for a wether to grow horns? I presumed that they would not
get much more than stubs.
Rick Krach
Auburn, California
(530) 889-1488
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:06:28 -0500
> From: Cecil Bearden
> Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Aging Ewe?
> To: blackbelly@lists.blackb
He was wethered at about 10 years old. You are right.
Cecil in OKla
Rick Krach wrote:
> Cecil, is it usual for a wether to grow horns? I presumed that they would
> not get much more than stubs.
>
> Rick Krach
> Auburn, California
> (530) 889-1488
>
>
>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 20
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