[FiB]

Well it is still alive and strong now ( strong enough to very assertively resist me putting anything in its mouth!  Did consider asking about tubing, is it too old?)- god knows what it's surviving on cause it won't take any lamlac... I wrestled 100ml into it this morning and managed a few hundred ml of rehydration fluids last night by syringe... It does have access to hay grass and growers... So MUST be sneaking some in else it would be dead by now. Got it shut in a shed at the moment with greedy pet lamb and some nuts (it's peeing down at mo, and ill lamb still doesn't seem to have full dose of sense and was just standing there getting soaked) - hoping it will copy pet lamb.  The saga continues. There is still a chance 

[bloomer]

did you ever consider some animals are just stoopid???

[FiB]

This one certainly is a few pennies short, wether inherently or as result of illness.....definitely daft!

[Bionic]

I dread opening this thread just in case but its still good news 

[FiB]

So sorry I seem to have sucked others into my will it wont it! Is it best I finish here? I am 50/50 now each morning.... Just goes to show there is always hope (and antiinflamatories, antibiotics etc) even if no one has any idea and all are expecting the worst

[Bionic]

So sorry I seem to have sucked others into my will it wont it! Is it best I finish here? I am 50/50 now each morning.... Just goes to show there is always hope (and antiinflamatories, antibiotics etc) even if no one has any idea and all are expecting the worst

Oh no Fi, you need to continue this thread until we know that the little lamb is raring to go

[bloomer]

Hell no Fib,


Some of us have all sorts of issues and need closure on daft lamb (his current name in my brain) and how he gets on, we expect regular update till he either dies (bad option) or he leaves the flock for whatever destiny awaits happy daft lambs!!!

[FiB]

Ok then Daft lamb still strong and daft living on apparently air. Shut him in old chicken shed overnight with hay growers and water and he MUST be eating that as still STRONGLY opposed to lamlac from bottle.  I would say he seems to be through worst .... But would be more confident if I could see him eating anything! (He had a mouth full of soil at last nights wrestling match to get about 30 ml of milk into him (and about 100 ml all over me where bottle teat pings out of mouth and sprays me). Anyway I slept better knowing he wasn't going to go of hypothermia at least. Out in the fields now, probably eating soil or standing in water trough(moved flock form the field with the stream in it, so that possibility removed.

[SallyintNorth]

    

[Whittsend]

 SO pleased to read that he is still alive this morning FiB. You have invested so much time, effort ( and money!!)  into trying to help him survive whatever has made him ill it would be so sad if he doesn't make a full recovery. As Bionic says, please keep us all informed of developments. At least the weather around us is a bit sunnier this morning Fib. Hopefully it will encourage him to keep fighting.

[Bramblecot]

You have made me smile on a sad day - so thank you FIB.  Keep posting

[FiB]

Well 6th day of milk wrestling... (50 Ml in him this morning woo hoo)..... Be time to wean him by the time he has submitted! He is nearly 5 weeks old now, at least he had 4 good weeks on his mum. Spends morning penned up with pellets etc, afternoons moseying around field on his own (with the flock, but not actively WITH them) , presumably stealth eating (still no concrete evidenc of eating). I think we must conclude (touch wood) that daft lamb is here to stay - I've at least stopped going out EXPECTING a dead lamb.  I'll post a pic later , but thanking you for all your company and support. 

[Bionic]

 

[Anke]

Well 6th day of milk wrestling... (50 Ml in him this morning woo hoo)..... Be time to wean him by the time he has submitted! He is nearly 5 weeks old now, at least he had 4 good weeks on his mum. Spends morning penned up with pellets etc, afternoons moseying around field on his own, presumably stealth eating (still no concrete evidenc of eating). I think we must conclude (touch wood) that daft lamb is here to stay - I've at least stopped going out EXPECTING a dead lamb.  I'll post a pic later , but thanking you for all your company and support. 

My billy kid last year lost his sucking reflex when I brought him home, we fought all summer including an episode of near death at the vets on drip.... he finally started to properly suck his bottle just before Xmas... now he still gets a bottle at night and loves it! (He will be 1 year old this week)... but I have to thank my OH for persevering.

[FiB]

Still here, still wandering around in his own world, still off milk.... But loving lick! Thanks again for all support