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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: andywalt on March 22, 2013, 01:55:13 pm

Title: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: andywalt on March 22, 2013, 01:55:13 pm

Hi All, I hope the weather isnt bad for all of you out there....
Ive come across something that ive not seen before, my last twins born two days ago from a large romney ewe, the ram lamb has his scrotum full of something? I went to put his ring on and first of all it looked like it had one large testicle, when i felt it, it was full of something squissy? maybe a prolaps ? I obviously didnt put a ring on him, has anyone else experianced this please? your comments will be very well recieved
thank you

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: ZaktheLad on March 22, 2013, 02:45:09 pm

Definitely do not castrate him - likely to be a small bit of intestine and if you put a rubber on him you will kill him.  I had a ram lamb like this some years ago.

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: andywalt on March 22, 2013, 02:53:22 pm

Zak
thought it could be that, so better just to leave him and send him off entire when the time is right?

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: suziequeue on March 22, 2013, 02:59:24 pm

I'm only a human doctor not a vet but it sounds suspiciously like a congenital scrotal  hernia. I searched "lamb, hernia, scrotum" on google and certainly such a thing is not unheard of and a piece in the Journal of Veterinary Science quotes:

"Inguinal hernia is relatively common in bulls, rams and boars. Scrotal hernia is merely an extension of an inguinal hernia"

But this was a study carried out in Saudi where breeds are very different.

Personally I would call the vet and chat on the phone.

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: andywalt on March 22, 2013, 03:07:06 pm

thanks suzie
Im going to keep an eye on it, he will be in for another few days so will have a closer feel before i turn him out

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: SallyintNorth on March 23, 2013, 10:54:56 am

I get one or maybe two (in 500-ish lambs) every so often - not every year, but maybe most years.  They seem to thrive but yes, don't put a ring on him, and of course get him away before he becomes sexually active ;)

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: MrsJ on March 23, 2013, 11:13:16 am

Oh no, something else that can go wrong that I didnt know about!!!

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: Womble on March 23, 2013, 01:40:51 pm

Quote from: MrsJ on March 23, 2013, 11:13:16 am

Oh no, something else that can go wrong that I didnt know about!!!

That's what I thought!   Whichever way you look at it, it's either a load of b0llocks or a bag of sh*te!!  :o

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: suziequeue on March 23, 2013, 02:37:20 pm

 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: sabrina on March 23, 2013, 02:41:55 pm

 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

Title: Re: Ram lamb ball bag full of something?
Post by: andywalt on March 23, 2013, 05:24:18 pm

Thanks Sally nice to know and all is good, ive had a few with watery eyes also this year, prob ingrowing eye lashes, i am pulling back there lids every day and a little 1mm antibiotic seems to clear it up
like the funny comments :)