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thank you! I'm willing to try vit B and selenium- I'll see what I can find in town later this afternoon. I just checked on the lamb, and she's still hanging on. Her momma is so sweet and squats quite low so she can reach the teats. I had a closer look at her front legs and they seem to not...

I had a lamb born (very large single) yesterday afternoon to a small first time momma. The lamb cannot stand on her front legs at all. If I set her down with legs extended, she falls over. She can move around by walking on her knees. Great suck reflex, managing to get milk from momma just...

she did have them quite close together, and very easily! I'm glad she waited until after we shoveled a path to the barn- we had 2 feet of snow fall this week! The little black and white one is a boy, and the solid white one (or "pink colored lamb" according to my son) is a girl. The paternal...

UPDATE! Last I updated, everything seemed 100% normal with her, but I kept visiting 3x per day to offer alfalfa pellets and apple slices. We also switched her loose minerals to a molasses mineral protein tub. She continued looking great, with no symptoms of pregnancy toxemia at all. She...

She's still looking 100% happy and healthy today- eating well and anxiously waiting for visits and snacks. I don't think she's due until Feb 9th-ish (based on when I actually saw the ram breed her), but it could be as early as this weekend. Her udder has started to fill out a little (like 2...

thank you all again for the quick help and knowledge! This morning she was behaving 100% normal. I gave her apple slices, alfalfa pellets drizzled with molasses and loaded up the feeder with alfalfa. She's bright eyed and energetic (as much as a fat pregnant sheep can be!). A bit later I had...

good to know Sheepshape! Her favorite treat is animal cookies (the ones made for people)! I got everything I needed and she's been enjoying alfalfa pellets, apples and molasses, plus alfalfa and free choice grass hay. I haven't added any grain in. She's doing really well and acting...

she seems to be doing great. I've been keeping the hay rack full with alfalfa (which she prefers over grass hay) and giving her apple slices drizzled in molasses every few hours. I didn't realize that my farm store was closed today, so after lunch I'm heading out in the opposite direction to...

forgot to reload and just saw your post Goat Whisperer. Thank you- I didn't get to temp her tonight, but in the morning my husband will be back home and I'll have the extra hands to get the ram out and hold her still. Keto sticks are a great idea- I'll look for them tomorrow as well. Its...

I called the sheep into the barn for the night. I got some alfalfa from a neighbor to hold me over until tomorrow. She ate with gusto, and looks totally normal, plus she ate the last of the green grass from the area I fenced in today. I'm heading to the store in the morning to get propylene...

firstly, thank you all for responding!! After the nutridrench, she perked up but still wasn't eating the hay. I offered her a handful of green grass and she ate that right up. She continued to ignore the hay, but she was perky and if it wasn't for her sunken sides, I would have thought all...

Hello everyone! I have a 6 /7ish year old ewe who is pregnant (always has twins). Due sometime in the next month. Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. Diet- weedy pasture (although the pasture is quite dormant at the moment) and local grass hay. Free choice mineral and free choice...

Its a relief that she's sensitive to feed and its not something much worse. She did lamb easily and her single lamb from February grew incredibly fast and is very healthy. I don't mind treating with kaolin pectin as needed- the big jugs aren't too expensive to keep on hand :) Thank you all...

Yeah, it must be dietary and her guts are sensitive. Its a relief that its not worms and its definitely not Johnes. We have a barn full of local grass hay for this winter so I hope the scouring settles down when she's on dryer feed. At the beginning of last winter I was feeding grass hay and...

UPDATE: I submitted a fecal sample from my scouring sheep, and out of curiosity, I also submitted a fecal sample from my 6 year old ewe who has never been de-wormed by me (I've owned her for a year). My 6 year old ewe is beautiful and healthy and carries excess weight (raised on pasture and...

Its possible that she's eating a toxic plant in the pasture. Its a 4 acre pasture that was logged 3 years ago, and when we bought the property last year, we decided to seed the cleared land, fence it in and put the sheep on it. The tree stumps are still there, but the sheep like standing on...

The Johnes test was a fecal test- I believe it was called Fecal PCR, but I might be wrong. We purchased her in October 2017 and I did the test in January of 2018. I read that the fecal Johnes test could catch the disease earlier than the blood test. I really hope it wasn't a false negative...

thats very interesting! For the longest time I was blaming diet changes on the scours. They went from grass hay to alfalfa to fresh pasture to dried up pasture and now they have dried pasture plus local grass hay to supplement. Stress seems sets her off too. Basically looking at her wrong...

Thanks for the input! No lumps or bumps, and everything else seems normal. One thing I forgot about, is she does chew a little different than the others, like if I feed them cut up apples, the apples often fall back out of her mouth. I've read that dental issues could cause scours, but its...

Hi everyone! I Need some ideas because I’m at a loss. I have a 3 year old St Croix hair sheep. We bought her a year ago. She’s always been on the thin side and has had on and off scours this entire time. She seldom has perfect berries- it usually goes from "logs" to chocolate pudding. I...