greenacres
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Ok...kind of a long post with pictures. My ewe was attacked by either my pony gelding or mini-donk gelding just before she delivered. I am blaming the pony because he had LOTS of blood on him (knees to nose) -- the donkey had one little smear on his nose only. The pony is being re-homed, but my question is, the ewe has since delivered a ramling. When is it safe to have him in the pasture? I have 2 tiny goat does (mini-pygmys they are about 20 lbs each), a Babydoll wether and the Baydoll ram in addition to the mini-donkey. The ewe and lamb are completely separated in the barn for now, but she is going a little nuts since she can't get to the grass to graze. I have grass hay for her and she is getting alfalfa cubes in addition to grain. I was planning on dividing the pasture with electronet and putting the ewe and lamb on one side and the rest on the other. I posted pictures of the ewe: initial attack with just a bite mark on her ear and then the last picture with at least 1/2 her ear missing. There were 2 attacks (unfortunately, someone let her out of the barn into the pasture after the first one without checking why she was in there in the first place). BTW, she has now lost all of the wool on her ears which are kind of pink -- I had given her 5 days of inject able penicillin after the ear injury (it has been 2 weeks), any idea why the wool is gone?


