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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: tirdu on March 04, 2010, 10:14:19 pm

Title: One prolalpse after another
Post by: tirdu on March 04, 2010, 10:14:19 pm

24 hours before lambing offically begins and we've had 3 prolapses in 2 days, 1 resulting in a ceserian of a set of triplets  :-\

Title: Re: One prolalpse after another
Post by: Roxy on March 04, 2010, 11:45:39 pm

oh no, not a good start.  Do hope things improve and go well from now on.

Title: Re: One prolalpse after another
Post by: Farmer on March 05, 2010, 12:02:23 am

Sorry to hear that Tirdu...hope things improve...good luck

Farmer,  :farmer:

Title: Re: One prolalpse after another
Post by: Rosemary on March 05, 2010, 08:58:42 am

Well, maybe that's the three bad lucks and it's all good from now on. Hope so.

Title: Re: One prolalpse after another
Post by: morri2 on March 05, 2010, 06:39:25 pm

My neighbour has always maintained that the  worst part of the lambing season happens at the beginning!  That was certainly true of my experience last year when I lost one of twin lambs from the first ewe to lamb and indeed, the previous year, when we had dead twins from the first ewe.  On both occasions the rest of lambing was fine. My neighbour who lambs around 200 ewes assured me that this is usually the 'rule of thumb'.  Hopefully things will be OK from now Tirdu. Good luck!  

Title: Re: One prolalpse after another
Post by: Hermit on March 05, 2010, 07:10:12 pm

Be very careful about breeding from these ewes again, as once they have prolapsed they are prone to it. Hermit