SheepGirl's 2015 Lambing Thread - Lambs are here!

Last year about this time I was having issues with internal parasites in a few of my lambs. This year was no different. I lost #38 Saturday morning. When I checked his body, he was very anemic. So I rounded everybody up and I checked everyone... I dewormed #29, #33, #30, #15, and #44 with cydectin. None of them were white, but were a light to questionable pink. Figured it would be better to be safe than sorry. Most were a deep pink to red. I will be checking them again here in another 2-3 weeks to see what everyone looks like.

I am so sorry that you lost one We have had fewer problems this year since I did some preventative worming with Cydctin (I am a little ashamed to admit it)--but on the lambs I didn't do any preventative, we have had some eyelid scares but no losses yet. My prize ram had been acting off, and right before a big rain I checked his eyelids again and he was almost white. Dewormed with Cydectin and Valbazen (vet has told me to do this in the past), but he had developed bottle jaw by evening and totally white eyelids. Dewormed again 12hrs later (another vet recommendation), and gave iron shot and Bo-Se. Will be giving a B-complex and more iron tonight since he is still bottled up, worse in the evenings after a day of grazing. Maybe some nutri-drench too? I'm thinking I'm just dealing with barber pole as there is zero loose stool.

Are any of yours showing bottle jaw, or only the pale eyelids? Do you move pastures at this time or let them be? I am curious because I was always told to move pastures, only to read that that spreads the parasites and to leave them be, as long as you know your dewormer is working.

Can relate to loosing one to parasites. Will you have a fecal checked?

I actually didn't suspect a problem! No one had any manure on their rear end, no bottle jaw, everyone is growing nicely. Only thing was that he was anemic.

Just so you know, checking eyelid color after death isn't very accurate. They go pale as soon as the heart stops pumping. It's likely that parasites were the problem, but I wouldn't base it off pale eyelids on a dead sheep.

Sorry for your loss! It sucks every time.

Sorry