Hey everyone 👋 I’m looking for advice and or wisdom with toxaemia. Our biggest bellied ewe came down with it yesterday. She had seperated from the group, moving very slow, mostly on her feet still luckily but her hind legs are tucked in and her head is low. Overall seems off and unwell. While waiting for the vet to call back I gave her ACV/molasses/nutri-drench and she drank all of it. Then vet gave us a glucose and calcium drench on Saturday that we have to her that night. She had already perked house a bit from the molasses mixture at that point. She was perky this morning but started lowering her head and tucking under her hind legs again while standing this evening after her drench at 4pm tonight.
The vet told us to drench once a day, but on the tube I notice it says twice for sheep. So I guess we
should start doing it twice a day? I just checked on her At 5:30pm and she still looks the same. At 8:30pm we drenched her with both again. I just checked on her(10:00pm) and there’s no improvement but she’s not worse. I also have alfalfa
hay, kelp, and grain for her which she was nibbling on. I have molasses/nutri-drench/ACV
water as well as plain water out for her. We have her in a lambing jug currently so we can keep a close eye on her.
Any advice on how to keep her going until she lambs? She’s bagged up and really huge but I’m not sure on an exact due date. Any tips on what to
feed her or how to get her to eat more? We are in cow country so our vet isn’t super well versed in sheep. Thanks so much.
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