Re: [Blackbelly] Sick Ewe - update and 2 questions

2009-02-24 Thread Cecil Bearden
never thought of Guava, but it should have almost everything a ruminant needs... Cecil in OKla j...@netzero.net wrote: The cure of Guava has always worked for me but then you don't have fresh guava but if you have some in the frozen juice case the sugar can't hurt either. My girls gobble all

Re: [Blackbelly] Sick Ewe - update and 2 questions

2009-02-23 Thread Cecil Bearden
Oneta: Have you checked to be sure she doesn't have another lamb in there?? Sounds like she may still want to labor and there is something wrong. If you daughter has small hands, I would get a glove and shoulder sleeve and have her find out. Mineral oil or vaseline. Smaller hands the

Re: [Blackbelly] Sick Ewe - update and 2 questions

2009-02-23 Thread j...@netzero.net
The cure of Guava has always worked for me but then you don't have fresh guava but if you have some in the frozen juice case the sugar can't hurt either. My girls gobble all the guavas on the road when we go on a walk and they ate a truckload of yard clippings in the past couple of days.

[Blackbelly] Sick Ewe - update and 2 questions

2009-02-22 Thread o johnson
I went to the barn to feed and our ewe with the preclampsia had had twins. One was dead and the other weak but alert. We milked as much colostrium that we could and got it down the baby. Momma does not seem to be milking but we believe the babies were a week or two early. We have the baby in

Re: [Blackbelly] Sick Ewe - update and 2 questions

2009-02-22 Thread The Wintermutes
We had a miracle baby born last year. After much effort to save the first time momma ewe she was dying and could not be saved. We did a C section and took the twin lambs out of her. The first lamb's lungs were not developed enough for it to breath and slowly passed away. The second lamb was