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Frozen Lamb is not a lunchtime dish

31/8/2012

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One of our old original ewes lambed yesterday, she has had a lot of quality offspring since she was  born in 2004. Due to her age we kept her close to the house and fed her what was obviously  a too rich diet of nuts and grains. As a result she had a difficult birth, and with the night temperature at -6, the lamb was nearly dead the next morning, and had not had a drink. I brought it into the laundry, and immersed her in a bath of quite warm water for  over half an hour. The lamb responded and we fed it with a tube  directly into the stomach. We then needed to prop the lambs head so the milk could not flow back to the wind pipe. I was sure she was a goner, but amazingly she has survived. She also received a B vitamin shot which seems to help things along. And her mother has taken her back!

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Just like the other guys, except for the paddock fashion.
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Robert Stitt
31/8/2012 02:30:02 pm

Those little girls are tough little buggers, make good mothers tho, maybe sometimes Mum needs a bigger udder, more milk.We like big udders lol

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Sue link
31/8/2012 03:29:08 pm

Great story, you guys are fantastic nursing the little ones.... 'goodonya'

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