[Jacob-list] defect?

[Mary McCracken]

We do have to be careful with BOSe.  Selenium is fatal in too high of doses.
I am in a selenium deficient area but still use it sparingly.  mary
-----Original Message-----
From: Penelope <pcj at efn.org>
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Date: Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] defect?


>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?
>--  --
>Penelope Jacob, Doula (& John Nanci, Alchemist) pcj at efn.org
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