[Roxy]

Good to hear your ewe is perking up.  Porridge, with sugar sprinkled on, is a good pick me up for the animals too.  Goats and sheep will eat it when they are feeling ill.  You will be able to sample the sugar puffs and the porridge, followed by lucozade yourself.  Lucozade can work wonders on an ailing sheep or goat, just the extra energy they need to lift them.

[morri2]

This is one strange sheep!  I've tried porridge, weetabix, all sorts of sheep mixes and apart from licking the soaked sugar beet, she's eating hay!  There is (not much) grass in the paddock, but no, got to be hay- and hay thats been in the rack for two weeks!  That said, I'm just pleased to see her eating and going to the trough to drink, rather than having to pour stuff down her neck.  We've been giving her some red coloured glucose mix via a wine bottle, if anyone would have popped their head around the shed door they would have though we were bonkers giving our sheep Blossom Hill Red!! Not out of the woods with her yet though, she's still very depleted, but there is improvement! (must be the wine!!!!) Cheers everyone.

[shetlandpaul]

are its an hangover. is she eating sheep nuts. just thinking she would not be used to the other stuff. have you tried chopped carrots.

[laurad]

About the vet. If there isn't another one locally that you can turn to right now, can you transport the ewe to the vet yourself? Or have you got  a friend with a small trailer that could help out? A really poorly ewe that isn't getting to her feet at all can go in the back of a Landrover - supervised of course. Our vet charges a lot for a call-out, obviously because they don't want to do it. So we take sheep to them. They are quite happy to carry out the examination and simple procedures in the trailer, even though it's very cramped, so that the sheep doesn't have to be stressed more then absolutely necessary.