Thanks to everyone for their thoughtful responses. Yesterday I found
BamBam, they boy, had a temperature 2 degrees lower than the rest of
the lambs. Being new to shepherding, I made an appointment with the
vet this morning and brought him in. His temp was back up to normal
but he was still resting
Michael,
Yes, please keep us informed because I want to make cheese and my sheep are
bottle babies and very tame. I also want to raise their offspring by bottle.
The sheep are so much easier to handle than goats, who are easier to milk,
unfortunately.
My bottle lambs were quite the
Is the udder hard? If you can feel hardness rather than spongy, she may
have mastitis. Sometimes you have to get the natural wax plugs blown
out of the teat canal. If you just grasp with 2 fingers at the base of
the teat and strip down you should get something. It is very possible
that she
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Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] milking?
Hello Michael,
First thing I would do is sit the ewe on her butt and press the udder with
my entire hand on the problem side. Look and see if the teat noticeably
fills with milk. Assuming it does enlarge look for the wax plug at the teat
opening. The plug
Mark:
Thanks for elaborating.
Cecil in OKla
The Wintermutes wrote:
Hello Michael,
First thing I would do is sit the ewe on her butt and press the udder with
my entire hand on the problem side. Look and see if the teat noticeably
fills with milk. Assuming it does enlarge look for the wax plug
