Hi Jim,
We had a ewe several years ago who I believe had mastitis. It was her second
birthing, twins, and her udder had become the size of a Dutch oven the day
after the twins were born. It was hard and the lambs had trouble nursing.
One teat seemed to work better than the other. I tried
We seem to have a sheep with mastitis. Susie (from Soggy Top) gave birth to
triplets (2 rams and 1 ewe) on 03/18. All was well, lambs were between 4-5
lbs at birth. However, I woke up this morning to find the ewe lamb dead. No
visible injuries, she just seemed a bit thinner than I would think is
Mastitis is a real pain. You need to feed the lambs on a bottle and
restrict their access to that udder milk. They can get an infection
from it. You can infuse the udder with Penicillin, based mastitis
treatment. You will have to use cattle treatments as there are none
available for
That should have read - massaged her udder with a MOIST warm towel.
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