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Poddy lambs

25/10/2011

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Living the dream.
Every year at lambing time we get poddys, and this year we have twelve. It is hard to resist a lamb that is alone in the paddock or looking thin and tucked up. So home they come to join the others. Sometimes they are sick and there is the challenge of trying to work out what is wrong and treat them. With the sick lambs we win some and lose some. This year we have had severe hypothermia in a very new lamb (died), severe diarrhea in a day old lamb (died), lamb with swollen joints who couldn't stand (survived). Each win or lose teaches us a treatment or intervention to try the next time. Having access to antibiotics and vitamin injections is a huge help as well as being able to tube feed lambs that will not suck, or who are very weak.

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Lambs at the bar and Lucky the clean up dog. He can't bear milk to be wasted or a lamb with a messy bottom.
We think the lamb with swollen joints picked up an infection through his navel, known as joint ill. He couldn't stand, had swollen knees, a temperature,and wouldn't suck. Antibiotic treatment and tube feeding for a couple of days helped him regain an interest in life. Once he could stand and would bottle feed, he was on the way to recovery. He is now competing with the other lambs at the lamb bar and weight bearing on the affected knee. We will keep him as a ram, and fertility test him at a year old to see if this type of sickness and treatment impacts on lifetime fertility. These little experiments help us learn along the way.
12 Comments
Sophie
22/8/2013 10:22:22 pm

The Dorper lambs are so cute! I just want one (:

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EILEEN M MORIARTY
24/8/2013 01:32:02 pm

We have lambs everywhere at the moment, triplets, twins and singles are coming thick and fast. The rams have worked well and we have a good tight joining.

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Sophie
6/9/2013 09:27:02 pm

Do you sell them? Or just look after them until they are ready to join a mob?

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EILEEN M MORIARTY
18/9/2013 07:45:52 am

Sometimes we sell them, but usually they are just returned to the mob. We don't have any poddies this year which is a nice change. They start cute then turn into nags.

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Layla
17/10/2013 06:34:12 am

My pody dorper lamb died this week and she was nearly two months old I don't know how she died:( I reallymiss her

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EILEEN M MORIARTY
17/10/2013 09:18:38 pm

Do you know if she managed to get
any colostrum from her mother? Getting that first milk can make a huge difference to wether or not the lamb survives. Even after two months it can be the reason a lamb dies.

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EILEEN M MORIARTY
17/10/2013 09:19:30 pm

Forgot to say, sorry she died they have a way of getting under you skin.

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Layla
19/10/2013 06:54:11 pm

Yes she did she was with her mother for a while.(few days

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Layla
19/10/2013 08:49:15 pm

And thankyou for your sympathy

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pam berriman
3/1/2015 08:49:52 am

anyone with poddy's in 2015?

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coralie shortt
9/8/2016 07:35:44 pm

I would like to now where you are and would like to by two or three lambs of you (girls) I live in Bredbo nsw near the ACT

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Jenny Underwood
20/10/2017 07:10:57 pm

I have 4 wether poddy lambs for sale, all super friendly x bred merinos, they are about three months and ready to go to forever home, presently out in the paddock, used to cattle horses children chooks. If you have lots of spare grass they do a lovely job keeping it down.email me if interested, please note they will be sold as pets only, not for slaughter

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