[Jacob-list] defect?

[Penelope]

At 07:02 3/10/01 -0800, sbennett wrote:

>So, last year, I thought maybe this was a genetic defect. Now I'm 
>thinking that Itty Bitty was a preemie and breeding ewes as lambs is not 
>a particularly good idea. Has anybody else seen this, have any thoughts 
>on this?

Hello Debbie (& List),
	We had something simmilar with a couple of our goat kids last year.   Our
mutual neighbor advised giving a couple of doses of BoSe, one a day, I
think.  And we did see an improvement over the course of a couple of days.
I could find out again -- this reminded me that we probably should have
given our pregnant ewe's BoSe.  Oops.  We've managed to be preoccupied with
the baby through the entire sheep pregnancy.  The baby is what keeps me
from jumping in to the list more often (reaching, grabbing, pulling toward
herself these days -- especially things like my water glass, all over the
key board.  Today I have a new keyboard.  In a couple of weeks a water
proof layer to go on top of it.)
	My spouse thinks that the sheeps hooves are often soft when they are born.
 He adds that he thinks the ewe squatting is a good mothering instinct.
Our one ewe who has lambed so far this year squats a bit for her lambs, and
she did last year for her one larger lamb.  None of the lambs have shown
any difficiulty reaching a teat without the ewe (Jadzia) squatting.  We've
got another ewe due to lamb any day now -- she's had an udder like a dairy
goat since tuesday, so we're just waiting.  

	I'm interested in seeing other folks comments too.  What's the norm?

peace
penny

ps -- how's the Llama?
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