[Jacob-list] lamb posture

[Linda]

What's your website address, Liz?  
I can't really visualize exactly what you're describing.  Someone gave me a newborn Nubian doeling once that sounded somewhat similar.  She could stand fine, but didn't walk, although I could flex her legs without causing her pain.  The vet diagnosed her as having contracted tendons and prescribed LA200 injections.  For some reason, the LA200 was showing alot of positive results in treated contracted tendons in horses. It worked for Nauley. The vet said it was more than likely caused by her position and time in the birth canal.  It's quite possible that she would have recovered without the LA200.  I was bottle feeding her.  If she'd been with her dam, starvation would have been a strong possibility. 

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


> Hello all.

>

> Well we weren't supposed to have any lambs this year so of course

> we've already had 2 and we're waiting to see about the last 2 ewes!

> I have one Jacob purebred baby and a suffolk jacob cross. The ewe

> was determined to be bred and broke through the rams fence!

>

> Well the pure jacob lamb is standing/walking funny. She looks like

> someone took a rubberband and rubber banded her legs together and

> they "dried" that way. She stands and walks all bunched up. It

> doesn't seem to hurt her and I can't feel anything that feels

> abnormal. She'll let you stretch it and move it with out any fight

> at all, it seems to have full range of motion. I was wondering if

> anyone else has ever seen anything like this or if anyone has heard

> of it. Oh ya so you think her being born in a snow drift would have

> anything to do with it? they had a barn but the ewe escaped and had

> her out there right in the middle of it.

>

> I'm going to take some more pics of both my lambs tonight after

> work, I'll post them to my website so you can see what I'm talking

> about.

>

>

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