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    new to lambs - 2 week old orphan mini sheep help needed?

    yeah the bigger lamb is outside and the smaller is in the house. she made it through the night :D she's sitting/sleeping a lot but i'm guessing thats normal for a newborn? she's been up on her feet and nuzzling my trousers, drinking well from the bttle too :) they also (finally) have names now...
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    new to lambs - 2 week old orphan mini sheep help needed?

    a second lamb has been brought in today from the same guy, this one was probably born last night/ today some time. he had no idea who the mama was and the lamb lay cold in the stable so he brought it round here. we got her warmed up and she's had to small feeds but no one knows if she got mamas...
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    new to lambs - 2 week old orphan mini sheep help needed?

    wow thanks for the info :) it really helps! i put her out in the garden today and she went straight over to a mole hill and started licking the mud hill....i covered it with a bucket and she went straight over to another mole hill and did the same....im guessing thats not normal??
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    new to lambs - 2 week old orphan mini sheep help needed?

    hi thanks for the reply :) how much should she be drinking then per day if she only needs 2-3 bottles? she was making such a racket in the night i got up and fed her again around 4am (i havent had to do night feeds for 7 years since my daughter was a baby ha ha ha) so i'm not sure if she was...
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    new to lambs - 2 week old orphan mini sheep help needed?

    hi all. i have a small poultry rescue out here in Belgium and sometimes we get a 'non-poultry' animal in. Today a 2 week old lamb has been brought in after her mother died. i know zero over sheep but the man said he had 2 choices, bring her here or put her to sleep, so of course i took her in...
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    rejected piglet..help?

    wow i was so thrilled to see so many replies this morning........ imagine my disappointment when i opened my thread :lau :lau no probs over the hijacking, ive done it enoughttimes myself over on BYC :) but id like to ask...i tried giving the pellets with milk yesterday and she wouldnt touch...
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    rejected piglet..help?

    my minipig sow gave birth nearly 3 weeks ago and all was well for the first week. she delivered 7 healthy piglets and one little runt that struggled for the first few days but pulled through nicely. just over a week after birth, the sow rejected one of the piglets...i dont know if it was the...
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    overbred sow? *photos added*

    the march litter we began taking piglets away at 8 weeks but left two with her until 10 weeks (the 2 smallest, one girl one boy) everyone is still doing well, just a little concerned still over the runt..she's just half the size of the rest of the piglets :( but very active so hoping she'll...
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    overbred sow? *photos added*

    well Phoebe popped on the 1st september and gave birth to 8 little darlings :) mum and babies are doing well though im worried about her having so many for such a little pig. her first litter was 3, her 2nd was 5 and this time 8! she was already thin to begin with...what kind of increase of...
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    overbred sow? *photos added*

    shes not actually a pot bellied pig, shes an indonesisch mini pig, so shouldnt have a hanging belly like that hence why i thought she is pregnant...
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    overbred sow? *photos added*

    the pen that the girls are in is next to the boars pen but theres no gaps between the panels where he could get his *ahem* curly whirly through...or perhaps well....
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    overbred sow? *photos added*

    one of our minipg sows is pregnant for the 2nd time this year, she had her last litter in march and looks fit to burst again. this would be her third litter..shes only three years old. we didnt want her to have another litter but it seems by some miracle that the boar has bred her although...
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    when can i take away the babies?

    will they have any special needs if i take them now? (do they need to be kept inside, or outside with heat lamp, bottle feeds, wet pellets to make a mash or leave dry?) i concerned about dehydration, ive not seen them drink from the water bowls only from mum, but have seen them eating mums...
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    when can i take away the babies?

    my sow had a nest of 6 piglets 4 weeks ago, sadly one died at 2 days old but the other 5 are doing so well. even though they are eating starter food for piglets, and all the scraps mum gets, they are still demanding a lot of milk off mum, and she's getting so thin im extremely worried. you can...
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    what to use to worm pigs?

    i have mini pigs and have never wormed them. ive always used the natural deterents (pumpkin seeds, garlic etc...) but think its time to worm them properely i have a sow thats 25kg and a boar of 35kg..theres also a baby of around 15kg can i use ivomec cattle wormer on pigs or must it be...
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    donkeys and parasites...can i use cattle wormer - ivomec pour on

    just wondering if this is safe to use on donkeys and if not what is the best to use to deworm and demite/louse donkeys?
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    eye lids stuck closed.......?

    just been out feeding the piggies and i see one eye on my boar is closed, stuck shut even with sticky goo. he's not the easiest mini pig to catch and keep still........should i attempt to clean off the goo? can salt water be used to flush it clean?
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    momma pig lost lots of weight ...whats best way to.....

    can i use pumpkin on the pigs ..is that not a natural dewormer? or do i need something 'chemical' from the vet if pumpkin is ok, roughly how much per pig do i need to give?
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    momma pig lost lots of weight ...whats best way to.....

    12 months ago we got ourselves a gottinger....We were told he was castrated hence his 'good calm' nature so we went and got him a friend a little while later. well 8 weeks ago our phoebe gave birth to 3 little pigs. we upped her food, seperated James the dad (who turns out to be not castrated...
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