hannah208478
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Hello,
Looking for some guidance. We have an orphan lamb (4 and a half weeks old). She has been bottle fed approx. 1000ml over the course of a day every 4 hours. This week she has been very interested in pellets and grazing much more than normal. She is in a field with other lambs and 2 ewes. She wasn’t interested in her milk this morning and then 4 hours later she wanted to drink but she would stop every few sucks. We phoned the vet to see what they thought - he said could just be that she is ruminating and her gut is contracting so gave her a small muscle relaxing injection to help her deal with it. She’s in fine spirits, her stomach hasn’t changed size (e.g bloat) and has had about 400ml of lamlac along with 2/3 handfuls of pellets. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this before? Is she not interested in her bottle because her stomach is changing? Is this common because I cannot seem to find anything anywhere else!
thanks 😊
Looking for some guidance. We have an orphan lamb (4 and a half weeks old). She has been bottle fed approx. 1000ml over the course of a day every 4 hours. This week she has been very interested in pellets and grazing much more than normal. She is in a field with other lambs and 2 ewes. She wasn’t interested in her milk this morning and then 4 hours later she wanted to drink but she would stop every few sucks. We phoned the vet to see what they thought - he said could just be that she is ruminating and her gut is contracting so gave her a small muscle relaxing injection to help her deal with it. She’s in fine spirits, her stomach hasn’t changed size (e.g bloat) and has had about 400ml of lamlac along with 2/3 handfuls of pellets. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this before? Is she not interested in her bottle because her stomach is changing? Is this common because I cannot seem to find anything anywhere else!
thanks 😊