I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. Her ewe gave birth to a preemie lamb about a week ago and the little one is not out of the woods yet. Here's a summary from my friend:
"Here is the rundown on Gracie...
Lambing due date April 27th... she came April 15th, cold below freezing night, hypodermic, barely breathing when we found her, birth appeared fine, ewe stable.
She received colostrum within the first 24hrs, her mama had none we had to get some. She passed the meconium , was fairly stable and was within the couple days switched over to a lamb milk replacer.
We noticed she was lacking control of her legs and weaker so concluded she had constipated, we tried castor oil and then moved to an enema. That worked cleared things out, her sucking ability is not the best, however she is not dehydrated urinates normally and it's of proper colour. (My mum is a lab tech, so knows this stuff well lol)
She has been given her vit e and selenium shot. Her mama is perfectly fine, ZERO complications whatsoever.. this is her first lamb though, the rams 3rd. No infection of navel, was treated(iodine) and cut properly .
She ate better last night and finally this AM has had a movement on her own, no blood, nothing to cause concern in that either. She is still weak, has control of her legs and slight with her head, floppy though but alert and aware of her surroundings.
I think that covered it lol She's in our house, so stable temps and we often hold her and is covered to keep chill away, no fever has ever occurred either."
The ewe, unfortunately, gave up on the lamb and she's being kept in the house and looked after my friend and her family. Is there anything else she can do for her?
"Here is the rundown on Gracie...
Lambing due date April 27th... she came April 15th, cold below freezing night, hypodermic, barely breathing when we found her, birth appeared fine, ewe stable.
She received colostrum within the first 24hrs, her mama had none we had to get some. She passed the meconium , was fairly stable and was within the couple days switched over to a lamb milk replacer.
We noticed she was lacking control of her legs and weaker so concluded she had constipated, we tried castor oil and then moved to an enema. That worked cleared things out, her sucking ability is not the best, however she is not dehydrated urinates normally and it's of proper colour. (My mum is a lab tech, so knows this stuff well lol)
She has been given her vit e and selenium shot. Her mama is perfectly fine, ZERO complications whatsoever.. this is her first lamb though, the rams 3rd. No infection of navel, was treated(iodine) and cut properly .
She ate better last night and finally this AM has had a movement on her own, no blood, nothing to cause concern in that either. She is still weak, has control of her legs and slight with her head, floppy though but alert and aware of her surroundings.
I think that covered it lol She's in our house, so stable temps and we often hold her and is covered to keep chill away, no fever has ever occurred either."
The ewe, unfortunately, gave up on the lamb and she's being kept in the house and looked after my friend and her family. Is there anything else she can do for her?
