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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Four month old lamb that can't stand
« on: January 08, 2017, 01:04:00 pm »
I have a four month old lamb who has sore mouth pretty bad. She has been acting a little droopy since Thursday, and her temperature was down to 100. We figured she just wasn't eating enough and was having trouble keeping warm in the cold. So we stuck her in a cage in the heated mudroom, and gave her warm water and nutridrench. She's been eating a little grain and a little hay, and we give her milk replacer powder on her grain. Her temperature came back up, but she's still been droopy. Today, though, she can't even stand up. I don't know what's wrong- I've had plenty of sheep with soremouth, and none of them ever had anything like this.
She's never grown great, and I would guess that she weighs around 45-50 lbs. She was eating about 1 lb of grain a day, split in two feedings, before she got sick, which was as much as she would eat. She also got a good sized handful of hay each day. Since she got sick, she has only eaten a little bit of grain, so we gave her all the hay she wants. She's taken since Friday to finsh the last handful, though, and has hardly eaten grain either.
We're planning to take her to the vet tomorrow, but is there anything I should/can do now?
She's never grown great, and I would guess that she weighs around 45-50 lbs. She was eating about 1 lb of grain a day, split in two feedings, before she got sick, which was as much as she would eat. She also got a good sized handful of hay each day. Since she got sick, she has only eaten a little bit of grain, so we gave her all the hay she wants. She's taken since Friday to finsh the last handful, though, and has hardly eaten grain either.
We're planning to take her to the vet tomorrow, but is there anything I should/can do now?