Author Topic: traumatic day (Read 1758 times)

DavidandCollette · « **on:** April 06, 2015, 01:43:51 pm »

Went down to see the ewes first thing yesterday. One popped two lambs out whilst I wasn't looking. Helped her with the third as it was the wrong way round. So far so good. Checked the oldest ewe who had lost two of three lambs and she couldn't walk because her infection was so bad. Tom the decision to have her put down. Next ewe was Straining to long and had a head and one leg out but we couldn't budge it. Called the vet by which time the lamb was dead. He had to cut the head off to get the body back in to get the legs out. Trauma over we thought. Went for a pint and came back to find a the day old lamb on its side. We couldn't do anything to revive it. 7 lambs out of 10. Hope next year is better

Gunnermark · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2015, 02:21:56 pm »

Sorry to hear you have had such a bad time!

Rosemary · « **Reply #2 on:** April 06, 2015, 02:34:02 pm »

Bramblecot · « **Reply #3 on:** April 06, 2015, 02:42:04 pm »

How awful for you

. Our lambing started badly last year but luckily we have a great vet that saved the ewe and gave lots of good advice.
All you can do is learn from it and try to work out what went wrong, and how to avoid anything similar again. Roll on next year.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #4 on:** April 06, 2015, 03:19:42 pm »

When lambing goes well it is an utter delight.

Sadly it often doesn't all go well - and when you have only a small flock, three or four setbacks can seem as though the whole thing has been a disaster from start to finish.

Daisys Mum · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2015, 07:42:08 pm »

A few years ago we ended up with only one live lamb out of 5 ewes, I couldn't even blame myself as my sheep farmer neighbour kept them and lambed them for me as I couldn't. So even the most experienced have disasters.