[goosepimple]

Lots of great advice that makes you grateful for this website    we also use a turkey baster rather than a syringe - you can get it down further and it has quite a wide opening at the end so semi-solids can go through it too.


Great news, hope she's fine tomorrow 

[SallyintNorth]

Yet another use for a turkey baster !  (I use mine for applying dye to fibre; the turkey gets basted using a big 50ml medical syringe... )

[JulieWall]

Lakeland sell a stainless steel turkey baster, should stand up to the back molars better than a plastic one. I think that syringe I had was made for drenching, I cadged it from the man at the farm supplies shop. It held about 200 ml and had a nozzle just like a turkey baster but had a proper plunger. It was a bit squashed and shredded by the time I had fed that ewe for a couple of days so had to be discarded.

[farmvet]

Glad shes lambed, hopefully she'll improve now.  If you want to syringe or tube feed her have a chat to your local horse feed merchant.  There are now a lot of ready soak fibre feeds for old horses that would be ideal, or grass nuts

[Stanlamb]

Thanks for all the advice .... would never have considered a turkey baster for drenching!  The ewe is a little better - drinking well, has been munching on straw which is, I suppose, better than nothing and is much brighter and fussing over her lambs.  Still not interested in meal.  Sadly, I think we're going to lose one of her lambs - he has become more and more dopey since birth, not in the least lively.  He was blowing a bit this morning so I gave him Pen & Strep and Combivit but he really is in bad shape and terribly weak this evening.  I don't think there is much else I can do.  Am really disappointed - it's been a bad 24 hours.

[SallyintNorth]

Eating straw is good  , sounds like she is coming round 

Sorry your one lamb is failing -  the other one makes it.

Concentrate on the positives, don't get down about the ones you can't save.  You did your best, they won't all live.