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kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Bathing lambs
« on: April 24, 2016, 05:39:07 pm »
If you bathed a lamb would that remove the lanolin from its wool ?  :sheep:

Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2016, 06:02:40 pm »
Yes, if you used detergent. No, if you use plain water.  But why would you?

verdifish

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • banffshire
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2016, 06:47:56 pm »
I just put them in on a low heat low spin cycle.

DavidandCollette

  • Joined Dec 2012
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2016, 06:52:23 pm »
Are they hand wash or. machine wash?

kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2016, 07:10:14 pm »
People hose down their cattle  ,horses and sheep for taking to shows, blow dry them, groom them up , oil their feet, powder up the wool to make them more 'white'.
So why did my question bring out the comedians !
Ive heard more bizarre  questions being posed on here .

harmony

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2016, 07:32:09 pm »
People hose down their cattle  ,horses and sheep for taking to shows, blow dry them, groom them up , oil their feet, powder up the wool to make them more 'white'.
So why did my question bring out the comedians !
Ive heard more bizarre  questions being posed on here .


Nobody said it was bizarre but I would think it a fairly unusual question and you didn't expand why you asked so Hevxxx99 asked a fair enough question in return.


As for "the comedians" coming out, isn't humour a good thing? I think was all given in good spirit and not meant to offend and I for one thought it rather funny.

verdifish

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • banffshire
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2016, 07:46:33 pm »
Why do you want to bathe the lamb?  An answer to this question will my be give us an idea how to answer your question? 

beagh-suffolks

  • Joined Oct 2014
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2016, 07:57:44 pm »
when we bath for shows we just use plain water and purl dip

Coximus

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2016, 08:39:31 pm »
not the best of ideas really - you can remove the lanolin and render them non-water proof for a few weeks, which means if it rains, they get wet and could get hypothermic.

Best not to bother unless your tidying up a bad case of scours, in which case just tend the scoured end.

Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Bathing lambs
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2016, 11:07:25 pm »
I apologise if I sounded censorious - I was simply wondering, as Coximus suggested, if it was scouring or if there was some other reason where an alternative might be found.

At this time of year, I hesitate to bathe my (indoor) dogs and absolutely wouldn't bathe my (outdoor) ponies so I personally wouldn't wash a lamb now either.

 

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