Back from the brink...
'Snowdrop', our eldest Orphan lamb, wasn't with the rest of his mates last night. Eventually found him, in a corner, panting short sharp breaths and about three times as wide as he usually is. A victim of greedy grazing and a very quick google search later, panic set in as it looked like we would have a dead lamb within a few hours. A remedy of ground ginger was sought and administered in short order. I got up every two hours to jiggle his tummy (stimulates the rumen, apparently) and administer a couple more rounds of the ground ginger. Thankfully, tonight he is back to normal
Thought we were going to have one very dead Snowdrop this morning!
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger in two table spoons of water, syringed into the mouth - works wonders!