[Ag-eq] Lambing on the BlanchRanch

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Jewel:

How is the lamb with the absess doing?

Nella
Quoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

> Lambing is underway, but I don't know how many I have because, once they know
> who their mother is,
> the lambs don't make a sound.  I am reminded of the horror film:  "The
> Silence of the Lambs"
> without the cannibalism.
> I had to do a bit of emergency vetting yesterday as, when I went out to feed
> the sheep, I heard that
> one of them was really struggling to breathe.
> She sounded as though she was strangling, which I am sure, she was.
> Fortunately, she was the calmest of the lot and has almost become a pet.
> I got hold of her and could feel that she had a huge, and very hard, swelling
> under her lower jaw
> and extending back towards her throat.
> It appeared that she might have a abscess in the back of her mouth or in the
> upper throat.
> I started to massage it firmly and a lot of blood and what appeared to be pus
> came out of her mouth
> and she started to breathe more easily.
> I was able to tell you that because, just as I had discovered her, a man
> arrived who was delivering
> a few bales of hay and he came into the barn     to find me.
> We put the ewe who I call Petula, and her newborn ram lamb into a shed by
> themselves, and I massaged
> that abscess or whatever it was a couple of times during the day, and, this
> morning, I am pleased to
> say, she appears to be quite recovered:  she was breathing quietly and when I
> massaged under her
> jaw, the was no fluid coming out of her mouth.
> What caused the abscess, or whatever it was, I haven't a clue!
>
>        Jewel
>
>
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