purplequeenvt - Lambs 2017

Sorry the issues and troubles continue... I hope you can figure out what has caused this turn of "luck".... Hope you're able to save the lambs and ewes.
 
Montana was pretty touch and go for a couple days, but she seems to be doing better now. Bea is on the mend as well. I took her stitches out today and all seems well. I've been holding her to let Albert nurse off of her. She's not pleased, but didn't fight quite as much this afternoon. He now sees her as a food source so following her around and bugging her.

We have new babies today. Not from our sheep though. Our longtime friend and fellow Border Leicester breeder (she also lives only 10 minutes away) called this afternoon to offer us a bottle ewe lamb. She had an older ewe with only half an udder (other side was questionable) had triplets today. Since we have a lack of nice white ewe lambs this year, we decided to get her. When we got there, she offered us the other ewe lamb too. So now we have 2 new girl babies.

Erma (Fermium) and Wendy (Mendelevium)




Erma
 
I think I would switch grain mills--and let them know why. It makes sense that if they are switching ingredients and switching up the formulations for the feed, that it would affect your ewes. So sorry that you are having such a hard year.
 
Wendy, one of the new bottle babies, is struggling. She seemed ok when we picked her up, but a little while later, she started having issues. She has a really high heart rate and I suspect White Muscle Disease. She's received BoSe, but it's hard to tell if it's helping or not yet.

Since it's affecting her heart, chances aren't good that she'll recover.
 
purplequeenvt said:
Wendy, one of the new bottle babies, is struggling. She seemed ok when we picked her up, but a little while later, she started having issues. She has a really high heart rate and I suspect White Muscle Disease. She's received BoSe, but it's hard to tell if it's helping or not yet.

Since it's affecting her heart, chances aren't good that she'll recover.
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We had something similar last year with a quad. His heart rate was crazy high and and was breathing very rapid. Gave BoSe but didn't think he'd make it through the night.
He lived but he still wasn't right. Put him on LA 200 just in case of infection. For several months he was never right, but almost a year later he seems fine :idunno
So now he is a useless wether that is to small to eat but we don't want to place him as a pet in fear that his heart could go out and devastate someone.
 
They are so cute! I sure hope the one pulls through.
 
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