[Jacob-list] Weird tail - have you seen this?

[Carl Fosbrink]

I haven't seen that before. I have had a lamb that had a crook in a joint of the tail.


From: Williams Family 
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 10:30 PM
To: Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
Subject: [Jacob-list] Weird tail - have you seen this?


We've seen a lot of tails in our day, but this year we have an odd one and were wondering if anybody else has ever seen something similar. A ewe lamb seems otherwise normal, but her tail appears to be under-developed. We dock with bands on day 2 and typically dock them long. Within a few days, we started noticing a wet behind. It appears that she is not able to raise the tail to urinate. The remainder of the tail that would normally fall off has hung there and gotten longer and longer. We finally removed it today and found that the bones had no connective tissue holding them together - they were small and just  wrapped in skin. Anybody seen anything like this?

 

-          Mark and Cathie Williams
Swallow Lane Farm
http://www.jacobsheep.com 



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