Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

One of my favorite ewes headed out to a far corner about dark and delivered a set of twins. It's supposed to get down in the teens tonight so I went out and picked up the lambs to bring her back to the shelter with heat lamps. They are twin rams around 10 and 8 pounds.
 
It looks like our black ewe was doing more than trying to get her lamb to nurse. We couldn't figure out why she kept making the lamb get up every time it lay down for the first several hours it was in the field.

When we had them up tonight bringing the latest lambs up for some heat, we noticed that the black ewe was walking on her pasterns so it looks like some floppy tendons there. We will get a closer look at how she is doing tomorrow and see how doing splints on her forelegs might work. We may have to put her down but she doesn't seem to be in any pain and since the ewe worked so hard to get it to walk, we'll give her a chance.
 
Baymule said:
I think it was @Sheepshape that had a lamb with that problem and she put splints on it and it strengthened it's legs and was just fine. Don't give up on her yet.
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We didn't notice it when we checked her over. Evidently her dam knew something was wrong and kept making her walk so she will get her chance. We just talked to a big producer friend and he said to just bring them in so we can have access to them and just tape it with horse tape for a couple of days. You can't leave it on long since they grow so fast.
 
Mike, if she doesn't get better and she can survive as a pet sheep only, i would be more than happy to come and buy her from you and give her a home here with us and the goats....:huthe trip should be around 12 hour I believe (one way) but can be done with little effort
 
Mike our vet when we had some Kikos born that were down on their feet told us to take oatmeal (1-2 cups cooked) cooked add molasses (2T) and Sea kelp (1-2tspn)- feed to the dam and to do it for 2-3 days and the kids will get the nutrients an d be up. I was hesitant. It worked.
Our vet uses this on her sheep and goats. The other thought is they may need selenium. Around here people give selenium to the sheep at birth pretty much.
Anyway- just a thought- don't know if it is useful but I thought I'd mention it.
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Thank you both. The lamb is up and getting around just fine but I'm afraid she will damage her tendons if we let it go much longer so we will splint in the morning. We have a lot of contacts and most all of them say to splint and give BOSE and then some say to let it go and they will be fine. I will definitely file the oatmeal recipe away for any that can't get up.

@B&B Happy goats - I have already decided you are an amazing person but that offer was above and beyond. I hope you believe me but I do everything I can for our animals and only put them down when it's in their favor. We have several sheep that are well beyond their $$ value. :)
 
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