[Jacob-list] Wool slip/Thanks

[Linda]

Thanks everyone for sharing stories, advice, and encouragement.  We are over the bad time with her and I have complete confidence that she will be a wooly girl again. She certainly is energetic enough to take off running when she saw me coming towards her with the sweater again.  Maybe pink isn't her color?  

I had a ewe that came here with a roaring case of mastitis a few years back.  Her wool had a weak spot which broke when I tried to process it, but total alopecia was a new one for me.  Now that I've seen it, I believe I can do without seeing it again.  I'm just thankful that the lamb is doing so well.

Linda
 
www.patchworkfibers.com
Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:24:43 -0800, ARTHUR PARTRIDGE wrote:

> My ewe was very ill from peritonitis after giving birth; in fact,
> she was in the ICU (intensive care unit) of the Washington State
> Univ. Vet Teaching Hospital for a week.  We live only 20 miles away
> and she was getting worse. They used Excenel antibiotic, banamine,
> electrolytes,  in an IV.  When she came home all her wool started
> falling out.  After a week she was bald.  It definitely was a
> reaction to being so ill.  The wool grew back completely. She is
> healthy now and going on 10 yrs old.  The hospital paid half the
> bill because she was used as a teaching tool.  The young student
> took very good care of her. Cathy Partridge Moscow, Idaho

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