Rick Krach
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:28:15 -0700
I had a somewhat strange thing happen to a ewe this spring. She literally lost an udder. The ewe had been nursing one lamb for a couple of months until one morning when she started acted sluggish and stopped nursing. I couldn't see anything different on her or find any injuries and I looked at her udder carefully. She lay down and didn't move much for nearly a week. She wasn't much interested in food or water either. When she finally started to recover, she had lost a lot of weight, and I could see that one side of her udder had begun to rot away. I figured that was the end of her, but she seems to have survived it. There is a hairless dark patch where the udder used to be, and she is back to normal, along with now being a nice trimmed size. (She was a fat, Great American breed.) Is this at all common for any kind of livestock to have a part of their body rot away and fall off? I am so surprised that I almost want to keep her to see if she can still produce and nurse lambs next year, but maybe that is not the most logical, practical thing to do? Rick Krach Auburn, California (530) 889-1488 _________________________________________________________________ The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the i’m Talkathon. http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info