The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: woollyval on March 27, 2012, 12:51:00 pm
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In Sunday my smallest Ouessant....about 40cm at the shoulder dropped a lamb in the field and took one look and ran! Luckily I was planting carrot seeds and saw something move on the grass and hurtled down the field to take a look and found the smallest live lamb I have ever seen!
Got him indoors, caught his mum who was convinced it was nothing to do with her, cleaned and dried him and pluged him onto ewe as he did suck!
However he has such tiny stick like legs he really needed help so I looked at the stomach tube ....looked at the lamb and decided tube was far too big..... :-\
Decided to bottle feed artificial colostrum and did 4 feeds of 25mls over the next 10 hours.....
Still alive and wobbling around yesterday but sounding decidedly rattly chested....gave half a ml of duphacycline long acting antibiotic as smallest quantity I could draw up.
This morning he is still with us and starting to pester his mum...who now likes him but is not so sure about feeding him.....for milk so I think I'm winning! He weighs.....8oz!!!!
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Aw, bless. Hope Tiny survives :)
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photo?
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photo coming soon!
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Can't wait for the photo, fingers crossed for the little chap! :hshoe:
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Oh that is tiny :love: I hope he's ok.
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yes very small typically a small lamb is around 700g hope he makes it fingers crossed. :sheep: :sheep:
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;D ;D ;D My two single tups this week were 4.5 and 5.5kg respectively :sheep: :sheep:
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Good grief so tiny, looking forward to pics!
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Aw teenie lamb! Hope he is ok and must also ask for a piccie ;D
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Here he is...now weighs 12 oz!!! His mums shoulder is lower than my knee.....
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Wow! he is diddy isn't he, very cute :love:
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Is he suckling well now?
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He is now sucking quite well and is pestering his mum for food! I am toping up with bottle and 25mls about 5 times today. He is quite bright and cheerful now too....fingers xed!
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:love: :love: :love:
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:love:
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What a sweet wee sole - keeping fingers crossed :thumbsup:
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Aw - a toy lamb ;D very cute. He looks set to make it :thumbsup:
Have you checked his tail - looks like a bit of sticky bum building up.
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What a liitle darling - best his little black cotton socks :love:
....hope he continues to do well :sheep:
Tilly
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Now out in field with newly doting mother.....bum ok thanks fw!! :thumbsup:
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What a little sweetheart :love:
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That's not a lamb, that's a rabbit! He is very cute though ;)
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he is lovely very cute and handsome :thumbsup:
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Awww so cute!! :love: :love:
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Is he a micro sheep?
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He is a Ouessant!.....just a particularly small one....his mum is tiny too.....I have the whole family upto and including his gt gt gran! They are a small family! I have other Ouessants that are almost too big, still the right height but really strapping! They make excellent lawn mowers but are 'proper sheep'.......they taste good too!
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Awwwww....don't you just love 'em :love: :love: :love: