Ok - soay ewe 3 years old, not lambed or in lamb (ever). She had a skitty bum for ages, put it down to her eating sheep crunch over the winter and it not agreeing with her, stopped that, no change. Took to the vets, tested for fluke and worms, both fine, she looked over various things but couldn't find anything wrong generally, still skitty bum.
5 months on she is a skeleton with a fleece covering. She eats grass constantly and clean hay and we put out tap water rather than river water. Myself and OH got a hold of her the other day, cleaned her up, sprayed for flies, gave her a dose of Kaolin & Morphine (vet says won't do any harm) penned her with hay and tap water. Gave her claciject and combivit for 2 days, she was looking fine, no skitty bum. Went out 3 days ago she is lying down can't get up. Been syringing water, water with molasses for energy, natural live yoghurt with wholemeal bread liquified and today whizzed up green grass in the magimix with water and managed to get quite a bit down her, she was enjoying that - I'm having to put it at her mouth and she'll open it and eat.
She still can't get up - I sit under her and put her in an upright (normal) position so she can burp which she does - she looks ok, bum ok, but can't stand up - front legs have no strength, back legs more promising.. calcijected and combivited again this morning and will feed more wet grass and water shortly.
Am I torturing her - best to get her shot? She may take a while to die otherwise. How long should I give her before we resort to that? I know if she was human she could take a month or so to come good again - I'm happy to nurse her but if anyone has experienced this - am I prolonging the inevitable?
Thanks for reading.