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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: tizaala on June 30, 2012, 11:59:39 am

Title: Sods law kicks in
Post by: tizaala on June 30, 2012, 11:59:39 am
Just when you think you can relax a bit , you've got them through the winter ok, you've got them lambed ok, sheering all done, and everything seems to be on track . Then this morning Gabi went out to check on the stock and was missing a lamb, she found it with it's head in the fence , neck broken stiff as a board, it must have been stuck all night poor thing.
She was one of our best breeding and was line 1 significant stock, sods law strikes again.
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Post by: Haylo-peapod on June 30, 2012, 01:00:13 pm
Heartbreaking - so sorry  :bouquet:
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Post by: woollyval on June 30, 2012, 01:09:36 pm
 :bouquet:
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Post by: suziequeue on June 30, 2012, 01:16:03 pm
Oh hhow frustrating. Sorry to hear that :bouquet: :bouquet:
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Post by: Brucklay on June 30, 2012, 01:21:08 pm
Oh no that's terrible - we've had some in the past do 'head in fence' trick, seemed to be every moring for a spell, then they sort of grew out of it. So far none of the lambs have done it (touching wood as I type)
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Post by: jaykay on June 30, 2012, 01:35:35 pm
Oh no, how sickening. I'm sorry  :-*
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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 30, 2012, 01:46:26 pm
That's so sad  :bouquet:
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Post by: omnipeasant on June 30, 2012, 03:06:15 pm
Oh no!!
What a shame.
Hope she left a ewe lamb Doug.
Title: Re: Sods law kicks in
Post by: tizaala on June 30, 2012, 03:15:28 pm
Unfortunately she was a single lamb , we will repeat the mating next year  , have to keep an eye on mums bag for a while now. Thanks for everyones sympathy.
Title: Re: Sods law kicks in
Post by: SteveHants on June 30, 2012, 04:06:17 pm
I've been putting up some stock mesh on some places with bigger squares which the manufacturers claim that lambs don't get hung up in. Seems to work so far, but the bigger mesh does mean there is a longer stage at which they can jump through the holes.......


Swings and roundabouts? I dunno.
Title: Re: Sods law kicks in
Post by: in the hills on June 30, 2012, 05:27:45 pm
 :bouquet:  sorry
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Post by: Pedwardine on June 30, 2012, 11:09:03 pm
So sorry. :(
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Post by: Fleecewife on June 30, 2012, 11:50:20 pm
Oh poor little thing.  What a bummer.  We have never had one actually break its neck - she must have struggled and jumped, or been biffed by another sheep  :(   Isn't it always the best ones which we lose.
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Post by: SallyintNorth on July 01, 2012, 12:14:57 pm
So sorry to hear about your lamb, tiz.  :bouquet:  That's really bad luck to have it break its neck.
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Post by: moprabbit on July 02, 2012, 10:18:35 am
So sorry to hear about your lamb.
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Post by: Lostlambs on July 02, 2012, 01:42:24 pm
So sorry. I've had one of those years where I think the sheep spend all day trying to come up with new ways to do themselves in. Each one I felt bad about :bouquet:
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Post by: Ladygrey on July 02, 2012, 02:32:38 pm
Sorry about your lamb :( such an unexpected way to go  :bouquet:
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Post by: Remy on July 03, 2012, 10:34:37 pm
That's really bad luck, so sorry  :( :bouquet:


I've had one or two keep getting stuck - there was one lamb last year who I had to rescue no less than 12 times in one week, and twice it was in pitch black  ::) and another ewe lamb who kept doing a repeat scenario but not quite as often!  Not had any injuries but I can see how it could easily happen - the ewe I found was quite stressed on one occasion and had totally churned up the area around her by her frantic scrabbling.