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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2013, 11:25:32 am »
BH culls anyone that's prolapsed, end of.

However on the moorland farm we kept records and had no repeat offenders.  Not one.  No special treatment, just recorded ear tag numbers of ewes who prolapsed and never had a duplicate.   (BH still culls 'em - the cull ewes is one of the income streams, and that's the harsh reality  :( of farming as a business.)
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ScotsGirl

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • Wiltshire
Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2013, 05:51:16 pm »
The ewe that prolapsed only did so after a heavy handed friend tried to deliver lambs for me as I couldn't get them out. Did so much damage she kept contracting and prolapsed. Vet put back but kept coming out so stitched it but hadn't cleansed and the rest is history. When I called vet again as I was concerned he told me it was too tight so I had her put down.


Thankfully haven't had any more like that.

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
  • Pilton
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Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2013, 08:13:17 pm »
It probably isn't the very best thing to do, but when I have been on my own and HAD to help a ewe out I raise the back end up onto a bale. YOu have to be reasonably swift as this put pressure on the diaphragm BUT gravity gets those lambs back inside the uterus quickly. I find it far easier to untangle lambs this way. Last year I had to lamb a friends Poll Dorset who had presented me with 6 legs and no heads :o
Up on a bale was the only way I could get that tangle sorted ::)  The live lamb and mum were fine the one presented as 4 legs had been dead a whiles (days) but at least he came out :-\
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SteveHants

  • Joined Aug 2011
Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2013, 10:08:17 pm »
BH culls anyone that's prolapsed, end of.

However on the moorland farm we kept records and had no repeat offenders.  Not one.  No special treatment, just recorded ear tag numbers of ewes who prolapsed and never had a duplicate.   (BH still culls 'em - the cull ewes is one of the income streams, and that's the harsh reality  :( of farming as a business.)


I dont think of it as being particularly harsh - its a positive thing "who shall I keep?" as opposed to "who shall I get rid of?". For every ewe you cull for whatever offence, there is a ewe lamb from better genetics to replace her.

SallyintNorth

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Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2013, 01:31:32 am »
BH culls anyone that's prolapsed, end of.

However on the moorland farm we kept records and had no repeat offenders.  Not one.  No special treatment, just recorded ear tag numbers of ewes who prolapsed and never had a duplicate.   (BH still culls 'em - the cull ewes is one of the income streams, and that's the harsh reality  :( of farming as a business.)

I should clarify, the types of prolapses that seemed to not repeat were pre-lambing; the kind you shrink with sugar and hold back with a spoon or harness.

I would cull any ewes prolapsing post-lambing.
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2013, 10:50:44 am »
Me too.  I once saw a ewe with a ventral abdominal hernia trailing around a Welsh hillside - not on my watch!

ScotsGirl

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • Wiltshire
Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2013, 06:32:34 pm »
After another call to a different vet I managed to gently pull out the placenta and it stank. He was quite specific about how much pressure to use and assured me I couldn't harm the ewe as she would deal with whatever was left if it broke off. Supposedly only horses die of retained placenta.


At least she can go out now.

shep53

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Dumfries & Galloway
Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2013, 07:16:26 pm »
 :thumbsup: another sheep problem overcome . Interestingly i looked into pulling a retained placenta causing a prolapse and the only mention i found was that it may possibly happen in a mare

kanisha

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Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2013, 07:24:44 pm »
following an abortion and a retained placenta  the vets advise was to give  a hormone inj it wasn't oxytocin but another and to gently pull the placenta I was able to remove a large percentage of it with a gentle slow pressure. It was likenend to the same kind of tension that the water bag gives to help remove a placenta naturally. Happy to the say the ewe was fine.
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SallyintNorth

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Re: Afterbirth
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2013, 10:16:28 am »
We always give antibiotics to ewes trailing their placenta overlong. 

Clearly a little pressure doesn't cause problems as most of them do it to themselves, tripping over it or getting it caught on something! 

Nonetheless we always get the vet, and to cows too, if it doesn't come away.  Next time I'm going to ask the vet whether it would be safe to have a try ourselves before calling them.
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