Lamb down

So, Nosie the lamb wasn't acting well yesterday. It took my dad to get her up. She went to nurse off of her mom who's udder looks like it might be prematurely drying up. She was given a bottle.

This morning she was flat out on her side again. My dad got her sitting and went to get something. When he go back she was "crawling" around using her front legs. This evening she is alert and behavior wise is acting pretty normal. She still couldn't stand although she did attempt to. She may have eaten a bit too much of her bottle as she did burp up some milk and was "whiney" afterwards

I had him check her eye lids and they are a healthy pink. I doubt potential starvation is the issue since she was eating alfalfa well and is three weeks old. I also don't think she was hit or stepped on since the not walking was developed and not present initially.

Right, now I'm leaning towards white muscle. Our area does technically fall into a selenium defecient area accourding to US geological something or another. We have never had an issue with white muscle and have never really heard anything about it from other sheep producers in our area.

I'll be taking her to the vet tomorrow when I get home from school.

Good Luck!

Hoping for the best

Good Luck

By the time I got home she was wheezy and had a fever. I was thinking pneumonia or some other sort of lung infection.
I took her in to the vet. Yep, pneumonia.

I hope she is OK.

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Let us know how things go. We're pulling for the little one, and you!

still wheezing and weak. She cant stand up yet. She can stand when you place her on her feet but she is wobbly.

Well, she is no longer wheezy. Her appetite has improved. She really isn't very interested in hay which makes me concerned that her rumen will shut down.

Sadly, she still isn't standing. A couple of her legs were locked this morning. I massaged them and worked on them untill they loosened up. I checked to make certain she had feeling and got responces for all of them except for one. It could have just been since it was the last leg I checked and she was a little immune. I made her a sling out of a feed bag and some baling twine which she actually seemed to enjoy.

She is whiney. She does a grunty whine. When I put her in the sling she stopped for the most part.

I'm back up at school. I wasn't planning on going back home next weekend since one of my co-workers is having a baby shower (twins!) but might....If it hits the week mark I don't feel too optimistic for her.