Author Topic: Limping lambs  (Read 9308 times)

FiB

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Bala, North Wales
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Re: Limping lambs
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2014, 02:32:42 pm »
I still havnt treated mine, limp has got better and didn't seem to be all joints to me and no warmth in joints.  My current thought is thistles... The fild they are in has a lot of creeping thistles? I guess if you feel it might be joint Ill smee2012 ..... all the above says ab sooner rather than later - good luck.
« Last Edit: April 24, 2014, 03:12:03 pm by FiB »

Hellybee

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • www.blaengwawrponies.co.uk
Re: Limping lambs
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2014, 02:44:31 pm »
Sounds as if just a little knock after hoolying round, glad lambie feeling better x

ZaktheLad

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Thornbury, Nr Bristol
Re: Limping lambs
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2014, 02:50:06 pm »
I would certainly be looking more down the strain/sprain/pulled muscle route than anything more sinister in the first instance and therefore giving antibiotics unnecessarily.  Having watched my lambs tear at full pelt around the field trying to race each other whilst leaping, twisting and bouncing, it's no wonder they don't all break their legs, let alone just sprain something. 

 

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