lunari4nnua
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hello
so sorry if i seem clueless about most things, but i am a volunteer at a farm with 8 dwarf ouessant sheep and i am trying to manage a bad birth that no one seemed to care about.
the lamb was born two days ago, we found it under the scorching sun, breathing badly and agitating its legs (not convulsions), so i tried to stimulate sneezing, rubbing it etc. i fed it colostrum every three hours. it kept breathing weirdly and shaking.
yesterday it was able to stand up and the breathing seemed to get better. the vet advised against injecting some nutrients, so i just kept feeding with bottle.
unfortunately, this morning i found it fallen off the stables, with its head still inside and its body outside, because the little corner where it slept has a hole in the floor.
it has a bloody leg (not bleeding anymore), and you can see the bone. was it eaten by some predator?
what should i do?
so sorry if i seem clueless about most things, but i am a volunteer at a farm with 8 dwarf ouessant sheep and i am trying to manage a bad birth that no one seemed to care about.
the lamb was born two days ago, we found it under the scorching sun, breathing badly and agitating its legs (not convulsions), so i tried to stimulate sneezing, rubbing it etc. i fed it colostrum every three hours. it kept breathing weirdly and shaking.
yesterday it was able to stand up and the breathing seemed to get better. the vet advised against injecting some nutrients, so i just kept feeding with bottle.
unfortunately, this morning i found it fallen off the stables, with its head still inside and its body outside, because the little corner where it slept has a hole in the floor.
it has a bloody leg (not bleeding anymore), and you can see the bone. was it eaten by some predator?
what should i do?