We can recognise the signs of early labour , which happened in the early afternoon, but things changed and the typical behaviour - pawing the ground and separating herself off fromt he other sheep , didnt happen.
So come the evening we had to have a look.
it was an obstructed labour with the first lamb in an abnormal position whih needed some manual help to get it delivered
Eventually two lambs were born
.Some video a few minutes after birth
the mother didnt start immediaitly licking them dry , so we realised something was remiss.
We brought them inside as they were wet, it was wet and the mother 'wasnt right' and got them dried off
And the vet came and had a look atr the mother - and diagnosed a perforated uterus - an unsurvivable condition.
So some colostrum was taken from the ewe and then tube-fed to the lambs
And now we have our own cady (orphan) lamb - so its back to bottle feeding every 4 hours or so until they are a bit bigger and can join the other lambs
No comments:
Post a Comment