Baymule’s 2024 Lambing plus 12-23

[Baymule]

We all know I’m a rookie —don’t know if this works for sheep,,, when dogs need help a spoon full of canned pumpkin helps put them on track.
Just pulling at straws for something.

I don’t know how I’d get them to eat that. LOL my granddaughters sure like pumpkin pie for breakfast!

 

[SageHill]

Mix it in with their milk? Dip an animal crackers in it? Mix it with some alfalfa ( or whatever hay they normally get? “drench” ?
I have no idea either. But my sheep do love regular pumpkin. Of course it’s not in season now.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I don’t know how I’d get them to eat that.

You might give it a try. My goats, at least 90% of them, will eat pumpkin right off a spoon. They love the stuff. I mix their copper bolus in with canned pumpkin. Not pie filling - straight pumpkin. They will push me down to get to it. Literally slurp it UP!

 

[farmerjan]

Syringe with the tip cut back a little so the end is more open, down the throat a little.. no different than giving probiotics... got an empty probiotic tube????

 

[Baymule]

I have a can of pumpkin, it’s worth a try!

 

[rachels.haven]

Dosing something like Zuricox at 1ml/5 lbs failed? Do they for sure have oocysts and not bankrupt worm?...in sheep form? Man, this is crazy not fair.

 

[Ridgetop]

that something works.

 

[Baymule]

Borrowed lambs are now off the bottle. They are getting Bermuda hay and water starting today. Plus B vitamin paste and probiotics.

I ran ram lambs through the chute this morning and wormed with ivermectin. A friend is picking up a ram lamb Friday, so I wanted to worm him. If he still has any worms, he’ll dump them here over the next few days rather than take them to his new home. That’s my theory anyway. LOL So I just wormed them all.

Ran ewes that were so bad off through the chute too. Had a couple that looked scrawny so I wormed them. Pulled matted last years wool off Fancy, that didn’t shed. She doesn’t like me any more.

Tomorrow morning I’ll run the ewe lambs through and worm them again.

My lambs are starting to look better. I hope they are on the other side of this onslaught of parasites and terrible conditions.

 

[Mike CHS]

Is that hurricane going your way or is it too early to tell?

 

[Baymule]

Is that hurricane going your way or is it too early to tell?

Houston TV weather casters are all excited, but reality is it’s still too early and it might hit south Texas, but more likely Mexico.