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[Debbie Bennett]

Glad to hear everything turned out all right for Cloe. As far as 
breeding her again - I'd like to share something that happened a couple 
years ago...
My neighbor called and asked me to help her catch a crossbred ewe who 
had prolapsed. Neither one of us had any experience with this sort of 
thing. we chased the ewe around the pasture, with the ewe stopping every 
now and again to stretch and try to pull everything back in herself. We 
finally caught her and were trying to figure out what to do, when one of 
us remembered our own experience as mothers - nursing causes uterine 
contractions. So, I held the ewe and my friend "milked" her. She didn't 
"butt" the bag and of course no milk came out, but the prolapsed vagina 
slipped back inside. "Milking" her seemed to do the trick. The ewe had a 
normal delivery two days later. The ewe had twins on her own the 
following year with no problems.
Debbie Bennett

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 08:15 AM, stonecroft235 at juno.com wrote:

> Good Morning & Hallelujah:
> Well, I have been fussing and fretting for days over Chloe, the ewe who
> seemingly had on/off contractions and yesterday a vaginal
> prolapse........yesterday I returned her vagina to it's rightful place
> and it actually stayed there without a harness (don't have one).  This
> morning I awoke feeling rather glum and gloomy - the weather channel is
> predicting cold, rainy weather (we DO need the rain), and thinking about
> Chloe pushing out her innerds sort of had dampened my spirits........I
> picked up my gray and gloomy thoughts, threw em over my shoulder took 
> off
> carrying them,  trudging  out to the barn --  and VOILA -- there was
> Chloe with two healthy little lambs, a ram and a ewe - lusty little
> fellows -- and she was just bustin at the seams with pride.  What a cure
> for the blues -- little lambies are a heap sight better than Prozac!!!!
> And, Chloe's inside body parts are still inside, very much to my
> delight!!  So, I spent the whole morning out in the barn fussing over
> these babies, arranging a heat lamp - I was in there so much that Chloe
> figured she must have delivered me too - and started licking and 
> cleaning
> my hair!!!  And suddenly I feel 50 pounds lighter, I think I even see
> glimpses of sun behind the clouds, the forsythias are blooming,
> .............ain't life grand!!!!
>
> Doncha just love stories with happy endings!!!!!!
>
> Sue Martin
> Stonecroft
>
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