Oh brother, I feel so done with sheep this year. A neighbor brought me a ewe lamb that they are at the end of their rope with and didn't want to pay a vet. I really didn't want any more problems but I felt so bad for the little thing. So according to them she did get colostrum and milk for a few weeks then she was just on her own with grass and a bit of grain but has been eating less and less. I myself have had too many sheep vet bills this year and really don't want to call for her as well.
To the emergency, they said she's about 7 weeks old now and she weighs about the same as my 2 week old ram lamb. She's so boney it just makes me so sad. I wormed her, gave her nutri drench even some metacam. She kind of picks at hay(she wouldn't touch regular grass hay I had to mix it with alfalfa hay to get her to even try it). I tried sheep text, plain oats,plain cracked corn. She will have a few bites then walk away. On pasture she kind of just looks around for blackberry leaves but won't eat much grass. She just looks worse everyday.
Now I know dog food is bad for sheep but she goes crazy for it if it's out for the dogs,. First thing being let out in the morning she goes running to look for it so I had to make sure it's out away before she's out . She's the same if I take a sandwich or something out with me when I'm watching the sheep for a while.
I guess I'm so at a loss at how underweight she is that I'm wondering if I should be letting her eat some dog food, bread ect? If she keeps not eating shes not going to live much longer.
I guess that's my question, should I just give her what she actually wants to eat???
To the emergency, they said she's about 7 weeks old now and she weighs about the same as my 2 week old ram lamb. She's so boney it just makes me so sad. I wormed her, gave her nutri drench even some metacam. She kind of picks at hay(she wouldn't touch regular grass hay I had to mix it with alfalfa hay to get her to even try it). I tried sheep text, plain oats,plain cracked corn. She will have a few bites then walk away. On pasture she kind of just looks around for blackberry leaves but won't eat much grass. She just looks worse everyday.
Now I know dog food is bad for sheep but she goes crazy for it if it's out for the dogs,. First thing being let out in the morning she goes running to look for it so I had to make sure it's out away before she's out . She's the same if I take a sandwich or something out with me when I'm watching the sheep for a while.
I guess I'm so at a loss at how underweight she is that I'm wondering if I should be letting her eat some dog food, bread ect? If she keeps not eating shes not going to live much longer.
I guess that's my question, should I just give her what she actually wants to eat???