The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: juliem on August 05, 2017, 09:31:21 pm
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Rescued a cade lamb for the third day running when it had it"s head stuck in the stock fencing.Not unusual but this lamb makes no attempt to raise the alarm by bleeting.Does it have a screw loose? Not my sheep....just rent the land.It's a two person job to release it...
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If it was your own lamb you could put a bucket on its head for a few days, lampshade effect,
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Perhaps an ordinary lamb bleets to get attention of its mother .But then I thought we humans become the mother substitute with cade lambs Like the idea of the lampshade..good photo opportunity!
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Like this, you mean!! :coat:
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When ours get stuck they often just stand there. We had one a couple of weeks ago who managed to get his head stuck in the creep feeder (poor design, now fixed). We just laughed at him for being really greedy, but then when he was still there four hours later, we finally realised..... :-[
Still, it could always be worse! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5988367/Abseiling-sheep-gets-stuck-on-live-wire.html)
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you can always rely on womble to brighten your day.
Pity it wasn't video'd. It would have been a smash hit on youtube, "Ram on a zip wire"
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If it was your own lamb you could put a bucket on its head for a few days, lampshade effect,
Hopefully you mean one of those things they put on dogs at the vet - nice and lightweight, unlike a bucket (presumably you mean with the bottom cut out, but would be sharp and heavy). However, could the lamb still feed with something large enough to stop it getting its head through?
Soays are forever getting their heads stuck through sheep mesh, caught by their growing horns. Could you keep your cade somewhere different until its head is too big to fit through the wire? It's the 'grass is greener on the other side' syndrome ::)
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Perhaps an ordinary lamb bleets to get attention of its mother .But then I thought we humans become the mother substitute with cade lambs Like the idea of the lampshade..good photo opportunity!
But its not your lamb and so you are not its mum. As long as it still knows other sheep are close by it probably wont shout. It's off the bottle so it knows no-one if coming to feed it. If it shouts its head off in distress it might attract predators. So, maybe it isn't as dumb as you think.
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Every year we get a few lambs (generally Badger Face or their crosses) that do this repeatedly for a few days. It's a pain when they're pure bred as the horns get stuck fast. It generally happens when the grazing starts to run out and that longer grass on the other side of the fencewire looks soooo tempting.