Hi all not been here for ages, but need your worldly advice. Had a few problems with ewes an milk this year but will cover that in a different thread, as it seems to be sorted.
I have a ewe who lambed triplets yesterday early hours, all fine, mum feeding lambs and herself well, until 10 hours later. She stopped eating, was scouring and down. I wormed her, gave her an anti biotic and glucose, no change, spoke to vet who advised 80ml of calciject, made no difference, I topped up the lambs during the night, and gave the ewe this morning a homemade drench (found on here by VSS who I know to be very knowledgeable) of egg yolk, milk and black treacle. I also rolled ivy leaves into her mouth and she ate a few, also managed to get in some cow parsley and hay, not much but some. Spoke to vet this morning he thinks possible twin lamb disease but also possible infection or parasitic problem? (both covered yesterday) he frowned on the giving of ivy but have always been told to do this as an appetite stimulant by many 'old hands', he also said lay off too much sugar as it can upset the rumen. He said to continue trying to get her to eat, and although there's not really much else I haven't already done he can come and give a steroid, any advice out there please, thank you