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Questions for Lambing

• Some of our purchased ewes was a flock all exposed at the same time have yet to lamb.
  Ultrasound is not available and the other shepherd has confirme...
• I am trying to locate an e-mail address for Richard Cobb. I had spoken with him before about doing a telephone interview with our club and need to di...
• Dick, where is good source information on pasture lambing? any idea on correct number of ewes per acre lambing here in midwest?
• Is there any way to prevent or treat lambing paralysis and what are acceptable losses for a lambing season for both ewes and lambs?
• A.R.,
  How long after giving birth does a ewe produce colostrum? ASAP!
• What are the recommended treatments for naval ill?
• We have a new set of twin lambs. The smallest is nursing well from a bottle but has scours. The big lamb is being stomach tubed at this point. They a...
• STARTED LAMBING BUT HAVE HAD LAST THREE EWES NOT DILATING PULLED LAMBS AND SAVED THEM. WHAT COULD BE PROBLEM
• We have 2 bottle babies. They are in 19 and 22 days old. The younger came up with a stiff fron knee joint. The vet said that an infection had settl...
• one of the lamb can not stand up it has movement in the legs but it still just cralls
• I have a set of lambs that arent getting enough milk from thier Momma. They wont take from the bottle. They are almost a month old and are half the si...
• How long will "pinning" last and should something be done as far as medicating the lamb? The lamb is 3 days old. The stool is a pasty orangish brown.
• My lamb is a day old and has nassal congestion.I only hear the congestion intermittently when the lamb is up and about.Did not notice the congestion t...
• How many lambs can a mother have at a time? One of the mothers just had four. Is that unusal,it is a first for us.
  Thanks, Ken
• We have had 2 yearling lambs continue laboring and push out their uterus after lambing. How can we stop this from happening?
• 2 year old ewe rejecting lamb
  has milk and lamb's teeth are not sharp
• I HAVE 3 SHEEP AND NEED THEM SHEARED, DO YOU KNOW ANYONE IN ILLINOIS THAT WILL COME TO MY HOUSE TO SHEAR THEM? I LIVE IN ELGIN, IL.
• we have barbadal sheep after they lamb can we bred right back to keep haveing lambs fast.How old till rams bred,also how old till ewes bred.we know no...
• we have barbadal sheep after they lamb can we bred right back to keep haveing lambs fast.How old till rams bred,also how old till ewes bred.we know no...
• when will a ewe come back in to heat after having her baby.I have barbadol's and I was told not to feed them grain just to let them eat in the pastor ...