Have you given her any calcium? She could have milk fever. Our vet said to
give tums - we ground up tums and put in water and gave as a drench - 4-5 tums
at a time a few times a day. There is also injections for this, but have to
have vet to hit vien with it. I would also give karo syrup or o
I've had ewes get into serious fights, most seem to get over it in a few
minutes, sometimes they fight off and on for a couple of days, though.
Sometimes
several will gang up on one. I've tried to break them up, but it never seems
to work; even the one losing won't leave it alone. Sometimes o
I have a ewe that has just recently started mounting the other ewes. I have
no idea why she's started doing this - she has had lambs before and I have no
reason to believe there's anything physically wrong with her. It's quite a
site to see the ram trying to guard the ewes that are in heat and
ntil 3 months of age and sell for a little less, you
would be money ahead. Selling the lambs at 2-3 months also serves a purpose of
getting them off their mothers, without having to run 2 herds, which allows the
ewes to breed back.
Good luck!
Onalee
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- so the chickens (which I assume control flies
by spreading the manure and eating any maggots?) really don't help much.
Onalee
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selling on the internet
- do you have a link?
I have thought about building something like this before, but was concerned
about how to keep their feet/legs on the platform but still have it open enough
to work on them . . . love to see how they do that.
than
Well, our method is the old fashioned throw 'em on their backs and hold their
feet in the air way to trim hooves, so that wouldn't work too well alone, I
don't think.
Has anyone used that 'hammock' thing they had in the Premier catalog? It
looks interesting, but I'm not sure:
1. if a crazy BB
m not suck because they can't smell - so you need to check
that, too. If baby is sick, need to treat with antibiotic.
Onalee
In a message dated 5/12/2005 11:16:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a ewe with a one week old lamb. The lamb was nursing for most of
the firs
I've seen lambs try to start eat from the feeders or graze with their
mother's as early as 2-3 days old. I had one ewe die when her babies were 1
month
old and they survived with no supplementation - they were eating food on their
own.
We usually try to wean at 2-3 months.
Ona
ithin four
weeks of rain and often without any visual evidence of infestation."
Onalee
In a message dated 5/4/2005 11:40:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nancy, Onalee, or anyone else, any chance you could describe "bottle jaw" to
me? I'm not familiar
I have dorper/katahdins mixes and black belly sheep. In the summer I feed
100% whole corn, in the winter 75% corn and 25% sheep pellets. I have never
had
any problem with feeding corn to the sheep. I think the main problem is
giving them something they are not used to in large quantities tha
- it won't hurt. Make sure
their is no water that the baby can get to, even if they won't suck milk,
they will fill up on water for some reason!
Onalee
In a message dated 4/29/2005 12:56:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Help! I have a lamb about 8 weeks old.
the sheep and how sick they
are, if they are eating, etc. too - needs to be considered.
Good luck,
Onalee
In a message dated 4/24/2005 2:13:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello, we are looking for a little advice. We are helping out with a herd
of sheep. 2 have bottle j
rs for the sheep and keep
'passing them down' each time I replace the ones I use on my plants.
Onalee
In a message dated 4/16/2005 10:44:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When using garden pruners as hoof trimmers... do you use the anvil kind? or
the by-pass?
Th
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