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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: bj_cardiff on March 02, 2018, 02:43:37 pm

Title: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: bj_cardiff on March 02, 2018, 02:43:37 pm

I've sorry to say that I've just had my first experience of ringwomb. Really horrible and it was a vet job. The ewe is 2yrs old, Lleyn x, nice condition and its her first lambing. I've retained many ewe lambs from the same ram and also have had generations of lambs from the ewes maternal line so I don't think its genetic.

Try again next year or cull?

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: twizzel on March 02, 2018, 03:15:37 pm

I too had a lleyn first timer with ringwomb yesterday. Not taken to her lamb at all though but given her bad lambing I don’t really blame her. I think I would try again next year and give the benefit of the doubt although it’s tempting to get rid also  :yuck:

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: Marches Farmer on March 02, 2018, 03:24:31 pm

I always cull.

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: Me on March 02, 2018, 04:30:36 pm

Isn't everything a combination of genetic and environmental factors?

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: Anke on March 02, 2018, 05:12:22 pm

I would cull, I wouldn't want the worry about it happening again.

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on March 02, 2018, 07:29:36 pm

I had one with ring womb and she was a cull.

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: sabrina on March 02, 2018, 07:55:44 pm

Had this once and culled.

Title: Re: Ringwomb - try again or Cull?
Post by: bazzais on March 03, 2018, 05:51:00 am

As hard as it is sometimes - cull.

I have kept ewes in the past and they have come ok mind - but not worth the risk on the hassle if it repeating, I can think of better ways of keeping my hands warm  than giving a two hours massage.