[Jacob-list] Unfortunate lambs

[Johann K]

Lasell,

I've read about the cat thing.  It's so hard to pin it down on that though.  Where I live there always seems to be at least one cat lurking around.  I have never seen a cat in my hay, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.  I hope my other very pregnant ewe delivers live babies.  She's due any day now.

Johann


> From: lasell at lasell.org

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Unfortunate lambs

> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:12:51 -0500

> To: johanndiedrich at msn.com; Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com

> 

> 

> On Mar 5, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Johann K wrote:

> 

> > The ewe gave no signs that anything was wrong before this  

> > happened.  She had been active and energetic as usual.  After  

> > aborting she just went about her usual business eating and  

> > following me around shouting.  I read that an infection can be a  

> > cause for abortion,

> 

> 

> A few years back more than half the lambs were stillborn pretty much  

> at full term. The best I could figure is the hay had become  

> contaminated from something toxic in the barn cat's feces. I forget  

> what it's called but similar threat to human pregnancies and why  

> women are advised to stay away from cat litter and feces during  

> pregnancy. If the ewes had been exposed earlier in their pregnancies,  

> they would have miscarried is what I was told.

> 

> I don't know why the remarkable difference in size of the twins, but  

> I've seen twins come out and survive, obviously differently sized.

> 

> Sorry for your loss.

> 

> Lasell J Bartlett

> lasell at lasell.org

> 

> 

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