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Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: huge udder...
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2013, 09:39:00 pm »
I advise after cleaning off the gunk and drying said bottom that you smear on some vaseline. Just helps aid against the 'sticking' factor.

That's a good idea! :thumbsup:

Sbom

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • Staffordshire
Re: huge udder...
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2013, 09:44:03 pm »
That has made me giggle  ;D only on TAS could you get advise to smear a bottom with Vaseline and no one bats an eyelid  :innocent:

Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • South Wales
Re: huge udder...
« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2013, 10:10:37 pm »
Whilst I was cleaning a yellow bottom this year I thought to myself, isn't this the ewe's job?  ??? And it was a lamb from the same ewe who's lambs I had to clean last year.  Most of my ewes are very good at licking their babies's botties, so I was thinking that it could be another factor that I might use for performance recording...

Tudful Tamworths

  • Joined Aug 2009
    • Liz's website
Re: huge udder...
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2013, 12:21:05 am »
My dogs do a brilliant job of cleaning up messy bottoms on lambs. They love it when I bottle feed lambs, because they have sitting targets. Very useful with other lambs, too - much more natural for a lamb to have its bottom licked rather than rubbed with a wet sponge.
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VSS

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Pen Llyn
    • Viable Self Sufficiency.co.uk
Re: huge udder...
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2013, 12:35:40 pm »
Aren't dogs just the most disgusting creatures! ::)
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