Sick Pet Lamb

PaddyJules

Advice needed on a sick pet lamb. She is about a week old and we bought her from a neighbour. She has very bad runny poo bright yellow in colour - is this scour? We are feeding her lamlac about 6oz x 4 times a day. Is this too much/too little and is this causing her poo problem?

Got an injection from the vet (cant remember the name of it) but 3 days later still no change.

Should we continue to feed her or should we water down the feed?

Any advice much appreciated.

whelan1

we give 150 ml of lamlac 3 times a day,

wiggy123

say feeding her to much...a lamb will drink a bottle-as much as u can give,no probs! cut back--usuage(feed amount)is on lamlac bucket.. also 4 times a day would do.. also have fresh water!heat--is lamb out in the sun?
will cause sour, as milk will turn to yogurt.sour in lambs belly

PaddyJules

Thanks for your replies. I reduced the amount of lamlac powder I was adding to the water and she seems to be alot better. A vet also advised to give her 1 spoon of natural yogurt mixed into her feed twice a day so maybe that helped her as well.

whelan1

good to hear

johngalway

Glad yo hear the lamb is better. We don't use Lamlac or (more importantly) Frisky anymore. Have switched to using Nourish, find it to be very good. Mine were getting bottle four times a day at the start, basically as much or as little as they would take themselves. Recently they've been on three times a day, anything up to 400/450ml a go each feed. Today I've switched them onto twice a day and they'll have opportunity of 500ml each feed. They were lambed 1st of April and are blackface twins. Creep and fresh water available 24/7. Fat demanding little feckers now. In the two+ years we've been using Nourish we haven't had one problem with it, also it's got an anti-bloat ingredient in it which puts my mind at ease.

whelan1

ours are a month old on 150 ml 3 times a day .... is this ok ? they are doing well

johngalway

whelan1 wrote: »

ours are a month old on 150 ml 3 times a day .... is this ok ? they are doing well

I'd be hesitant to say as I've not used it in a while now, different formulations would have different rates. Have you read the bag/bucket?

This is what the Nourish bucket says:

whelan1

its not lamlac we are on . i will check the name and read the bag:)

johngalway

whelan1 wrote: »

we give 150 ml of lamlac 3 times a day,

whelan1 wrote: »

its not lamlac we are on . i will check the name and read the bag:)

You're trying to confuse me on purpose

whelan1

because i didnt know the name i said lamlac its prolamb... i remembered from on here before that lamlac wasnt the best:cool: i am afraid if i up their intake it might scour them but the bag says they should be on 1 litre per day which they are not getting, but they are doing well