[Jacob-list] Re: Prolapses

[MarmontJacobs at aol.com]

Hi - we don't breed our ewes as lambs ever (deliberately that is...tho' we 
have had two born after encounters through an electric fence (OUCH)!).

Re prolapses - this year I had a two year old lamb a single and then carry on 
messing around to such an extent afterwards that I checked for a non-existent 
twin. Two days later she was nose in the air contracting visibly, so I called 
the vet (Saturday late evening of course!!) - a first for us during lambing. 
He diagnosed an irritable uterus and gave her a shot to calm things down, and 
said that this could well have led to uterine prolapse if left.

Kindly, he also forgot to bill us - also a first! I suppose it'll turn up one 
day when he cleans the car out...

Trisha, Marmont Jacobs, Wales