[Jacob-list] Jennifer's lamb

[BISCHOW at aol.com]

I think I would tube feed her, sheep or goat milk/colostrum/with some Karo  
syrup for extra calories.
 
Louise  
you tell a horse.
you ask a  donkey.
and you negotiate with a mule.  

 
In a message dated 2/23/2010 10:16:44 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
jacob-list-request at jacobsheep.com writes:

Send  Jacob-list mailing list submissions to
jacob-list at jacobsheep.com

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World  Wide Web, visit
http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/jacob-list
or, via email, send a  message with subject or body 'help' to
jacob-list-request at jacobsheep.com

You can reach the person managing the  list at
jacob-list-owner at jacobsheep.com

When replying,  please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of  Jacob-list digest..."


Today's Topics:

1. Baby  Lamb Issues  (gotothewhip at aol.com)


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message:  1
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:05:18 -0500
From:  gotothewhip at aol.com
Subject: [Jacob-list] Baby Lamb Issues
To:  jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Message-ID:  <8CC82B0BF49EE07-202C-DAD0 at webmail-m034.sysops.aol.com>
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset="us-ascii"





Hi all, I could use some  advice.  Mmost of our ewes lamb on their own, and 
have very active little  lambs at even a few hours old, but I am missing 
something  here.

Yesterday (Monday) morning at 3am, my husbands favorite show ewe,  Trudee 
went into labor.  This is her first pregnancy, so we watched a bit  closer.  
We have a camera out in the barn, and when we heard her pushing,  we watched 
on the camera.  She delivered a little ewe lamb, but ran like  a mad woman 
to the other side of the stall, and stood with the other ewes  staring at 
it.   We hustled out to the barn, put her in a jug, and  let her smell...She 
decided to clean the lamb, and instincts kicked in.   Little lamb seemed 
active and well..... Lamb #2 was coming back feet first,  Momma seemed 
uninterested in pushing.  I gave the lamb a little tug and  it slid out... not 
moving... I got the face cleaned, swung out some liquid,  and gave it Atropine IV 
and Respiram under the tongue. I massaged the heart  and gave it a few blows 
of air... nothing.... it was a TINY 3 pound lamb. I  made sure the live ewe 
got some clostrum.. Sucked 20-30 seconds and was  standing.  We weighed the 
live lamb  5.3l
bs  still a small  lamb.

It was now 4:30 we set up a heat lamp, and went to bed.  On  the camera I 
noticed that baby was just standing still.  At 5 ish AM, I  went out and held 
her to nurse... She was interested and got a few sucks  in.  I put her 
under the heat lamp.  I woke up at 6am, and she was  still standing, hunched 
up... I went out to the barn, and put a little lamb  coat on her, and got her 
nursing.. i turned the heat on in the barn, and she  snuggled down and took a 
nap.  I let her sleep about 1 hour, and woke her  up to eat.  That's when 
this trend seemed to start......and has gone on  since.  

I go into the stall, and have to wiggle and bother her or  even stand her 
up to get her to get up.... She stands there.. If I push her  into the ewes 
udder, she fumbles around, gets on the teat, seems to suck  softly, falls off 
and walks away.If I push her back into the udder she will  try to find the 
teat again and suck softly.  She does not seem to get  much, so we have been 
doing this every 2 hours....day and night.. YAWN!  

I have tried a bottle and she wont suck at all.

She is warm,  and has a belly, and has gained weight (she is at 5.75 lbs) 
but seems weak and  a bit "out of it"  She holds her head up, sleeps in the 
normal lamb  position, and walks fine.  

I probably need to let her get hungry  for more than 2 hours, but with as 
small as she is, I feel like I could get in  trouble fast.  Add that it was 
cold yesterday, and last night got below  zero.  

Today is supposed to be nicer, but again I am worried that  if she gets 
behind we may loose her

Any advice?

Jennifer   Tucker
Moose Mtn Ranch

-------------- next part --------------
An  HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:  
<http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/jacob-list/attachments/20100223/1e9e7e1c/attachment.html>

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Jacob-list  mailing  list
Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/jacob-list


End  of Jacob-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue  15
******************************************


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/jacob-list/attachments/20100223/ae6c5cf2/attachment.htm>