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Baby wipes are a god send - **** lamb s**t stinks. Makes me wretch everytime - normal sheep s**t is OK, happy to walk round with that on my hands but lamb s**t!! argg..You'll probably be cleaning s**t from its arse until you get rid of it or it dies so may as well start when its young Baz
You can see why the mums are not too keen to clean their lambs bums themselves This is a bit horrible, but we used to have a huge bitch - Anatolian Karabash X Irish Wolfhound - whose job was to guard the flock and whenever we had a lamb with a sticky bum plug we would present it to her to clean up. She thought it was great, did a perfect job with her teeth and tongue, and any lamb she had cleaned would become her special friend forever Sadly she died a few years ago so now it's OHs job, but he doesn't use the same method
This is a bit horrible, but we used to have a huge bitch - Anatolian Karabash X Irish Wolfhound - whose job was to guard the flock and whenever we had a lamb with a sticky bum plug we would present it to her to clean up. She thought it was great, did a perfect job with her teeth and tongue, and any lamb she had cleaned would become her special friend forever Sadly she died a few years ago so now it's OHs job, but he doesn't use the same method
I know what you mean. My Jack Russell used to gather up and eat any afterbirths she found and would even dig in the lambing pens to find them. Now she is no longer with us, I have to clear them up. For some reason the cats (which seem to eat everything else - even been known to eat a dead piglet) won't touch them.
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