[Jacob-list] What shots and/or other treatments for lambs?

[Linda]

I believe that you should never try milking a ewe prior to lambing - even just a little bit.  You can dislodge the 
"plug" and allow bacteria into the teat.  

Around here, we vaccinate the ewes with CDT within two months prior to lambing and then vaccinate the lambs at 60 days. 
 Selenium is not a problem in our area, so we don't use the selenium shots.  That's going to vary from farm to farm 
across the country.

Linda
in Georgia



On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:00:40 -0500 (EST), spotted_sheep at bluefrog.com wrote:
>Hi, we are new to lambing and wondered what you all give your new born lambs,
>or older as far as shots and/or other treatments.  We have a friend
>(gentlewoman farmer my mom calls her) who swears by giving her lambs BoSe, and
>that's it.  We tried to get that, but we need a presription here in NY,
>apparently.  We did get some, enough for the first couple lambs, but wondered
>what other people used.  We also bought some Bar Vac C/D Tetnus. When do
>people usually give that to their lambs, if they do? I(an almost 13 yo) am
>pretty sure one of my sheep is going to lamb any day, as her udder is very
>full and the other day I was able to actually get a little colustrum out.  Are
>there other signs of lambing?  The rams were also chasing them, till we took
>them out of the lean-to and put them in the barn. Thanks for any information!
>Marie (and her mom, Sue)
>
>
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