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KodeshAcres

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1/19/25 Kid's come in early in the morning to tell me one of the ewes (Misty) is "lambing", quickly get dressed and head outside. First timer here so I let the ewe be and keep checking on her every 15 minutes. No progress after an hour so I start reaching out to people and try to figure out what exactly is going on. Turns out she has prolapse :( I go back out and it has self corrected (phew) and Misty is back to her normal self.
Moved everybody to a new paddock.

1/20/25-1/21/25 Prolapse is happening more often , make a trip to Commerce, TX to pick up a spoon from a friend. Got Misty spooned and harnessed. It honestly sucks to be having an issue like this not even a month into having them, but I do believe that everything in this life is a test from God, and I know he is teaching me to trust HIM every step of the way (yes, he can even use livestock to test our faith). Hoping for healthy lamb(s) and recovery for Misty soon.

Haven't had any issues moving them anymore. I am trying to keep up with this journal, but with a household of 10 it gets hard at times. Hope everyone is doing well in these cold temps.
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SageHill

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Had a prolapse with a ewe last year (?). Did a homemade harness until the one I ordered got here. It was weeks before she lambed. It’s in the SageHill journal somewhere. You’re doing everything right. You are probably not going to want to breed her again because it’s likely to happen again. 🙁 sad because she’s so cute.
 

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Same thing happened to me my first year raising sheep. We also thought she was lambing, but it turned out to be a pretty big prolapse. After a few days in a makeshift harness, she was ok and ended up delivering her lambs without prolapsing again. The next year she did not have a prolapse and delivered her lambs normally. Hoping it all works out for you and Misty!
 

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Vagina prolapses are hereditary, uterine ones are not. This is a vaginal prolapse, correct? The picture looked like one, not a rectal prolapse, so it is unadvisable to breed her again. Hoping you can get her to lambing safely and she can raise some lambs.
Seems that it "comes out of nowhere"; we get it in cattle occasionally. But in cattle it seems to be a recessive gene that only shows up on a rare occasion and has to be carried by both parents... and they could produce a dozen calves and then one just seems to get the recessive gene in the right sequence and it "shows its self" in a vaginal prolapse... The thing of it is, we often have already sold the bull off before it shows up in any offspring, a couple of years down the road... and it doesn't usually show up until a later pregnancy, so you sometimes don't know who is responsible for it. We had 4 females that had calved for several times each, and then had 2 suddenly have vaginal prolapses ... 1 in the spring group and 1 in the fall group... talked to the vet about it... and finally traced it back to the bull.... sire and grandsire of these 2 females...with a particular cow as the other link. The vet said without the bull to test it was a guess, but he would lay very strong odds that is what it was..... very nice females too...but there was the link of both the bull and the original cow in my records... I am not up on all the specifics on how it all happens to fall into place.
There is a chance that she will not prolapse again, but it is a much greater possibility.
 
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