Hello,
I have 4 bottle lambs. 2 texels and 2 suffolk crosses. The texels are a week older than the suffolks, and one of the suffolks wont get up. Every time I feed them, it thrashes around lying on its side scraping the straw out from underneath it so its exposed to the concrete underneath, and only feeds when its lying down. Every few minutes it does a deep belching bleat as though its in pain. It can walk but only for a few seconds at a time, then its legs just give way. Im worried it will hurt itself one day. It does feed, just milk, it doesnt get up to eat anything else, or even water. All its feed is milk 3 times a day.
My only consolation is I had to tube feed it before and now its feeding from a bottle?
Any ideas what could be wrong? Also the other suffolk has scours which I am treating with Molecare Scour Formula Plus from mole valley farmers, but doesnt seem to be all that keen on it it only about 150ml this morning and was very stubborn
The vet has been twice but has given me some vaccines to give it but they dont seem to have done anything.I guess my main question is is it worth the time and money or do I just knock it on the head?
TIA