[pharnorth]

Iodine gets everywhere! It is comforting to know that I must absorb so much at lambing time that there would be no need for iodine pills in the event of a nuclear accident.

Haha. The meek, or at least shepherds, shall inherit the earth

[harmony]

I use iodine spray and it goes on as soon as lamb is born or goes into pen to mother up. The sooner the better I would have thought.


Here literally hundreds of lambs are born outside on the intakes and never see iodine. They wont even be caught up unless there is a problem.

[shep53]

Just to touch on your ewe with TLD while the stress of injecting may have been a final push she was probably  succumbing beforehand as it is  a slow thing ,  when the lambs are starting to make serious demands on her body plus the space left to consume food is less , then she starts using body fat and if too much then the liver is overwhelmed and starts to poison her . Anything that stops here feeding for while lame /handling  can then increase the  problem .    Harbro makes the Energyze Vitality bucket which contains Propylene Glycol and is supposed to help prevent TLD

[DartmoorLiz]

... she was probably  succumbing beforehand as it is  a slow thing...

That is a good point.  I'll look out for propylene glycol in the ingredients list of the buckets I buy next year. I think they were all on a bit of a knife edge when I jabbed them - it happens at that time of year but I'll do a few things different next year. She was one of my original ewes which got me thinking about breeding older sheep in my other thread.