It sounds like she might be going into labor soon. How is she doing now?
Sheep contractions?
Hello! My ewe sheep started having contractions at 3:15pm yesterday (it is 1:00pm now). So it’s almost been 24 hours and there is no sign of discharge, she doesn’t have a full udder, but she will lay down, stretch her head out, grunt, yawn, do the phlegm reaction, and grind her teeth. I also checked her “back end” while she was doing all this and it tightened a LOT. She is in labor, right? I’m assuming these are contractions. Yesterday morning her sides sinked in and her underbelly was not as tight as it has been throughout pregnancy. She is very swollen and open in the back end, and she’s been extremely clingy. She freaks out when I leave her, and will lay right next to me to have a contraction. Is she holding off the labor until I am sitting with her? I’m confused... I sat with her for 2+ hours straight after her contractions started but there wasn’t anything... just the contraction every 5-10 minutes.
She’s acting fine and has been eating grain and hay, although she wasn’t too interested in her grain this morning. She seems to be anxious, pacing and pawing every once in a while, but she looks like a normal sheep except for the contractions. What’s happening?
She’s acting fine and has been eating grain and hay, although she wasn’t too interested in her grain this morning. She seems to be anxious, pacing and pawing every once in a while, but she looks like a normal sheep except for the contractions. What’s happening?
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I had to leave for the afternoon but have a camera on her that I've been checking. She was just freaking out and pacing everywhere but then calmed down and is now nibbling on some grain. I don't know why she was freaking out. She keeps doing this weird thing where she walks forward and then backs all the way up with her head down, any idea what that is? My mom is at home in case she goes into labor.It sounds like she might be going into labor soon. How is she doing now?
I've never heard of anything like that.I had to leave for the afternoon but have a camera on her that I've been checking. She was just freaking out and pacing everywhere but then calmed down and is now nibbling on some grain. I don't know why she was freaking out. She keeps doing this weird thing where she walks forward and then backs all the way up with her head down, any idea what that is? My mom is at home in case she goes into labor.
Actually, I have no experience with sheep but I suspect they're pretty similar. If she's freaking out, maybe she trying to give birth to two at once? I read that sheep do that a lot. If she has been acting like this for a while I'd probably put my hand in there to see what's going on.
my doe cricket did this last week. She had tangled and breech kids. I ended up having pull them all because she was so tired.I had to leave for the afternoon but have a camera on her that I've been checking. She was just freaking out and pacing everywhere but then calmed down and is now nibbling on some grain. I don't know why she was freaking out. She keeps doing this weird thing where she walks forward and then backs all the way up with her head down, any idea what that is? My mom is at home in case she goes into labor.
Well, hopefully she can do it on her own successfully.
i can think of several tings it could be. Go to a vet have him check for a heart beat NOW
I called my vet. She isn't in labor but has coccidia. She's on a five day CORID treatment and is looking a lot better. The "contractions" where her straining to poop, and the vet said that there will be discharge before she is in labor.well how is it going
There is one very rare hormonal maladies I have seen it 4 times in 6600 births it is called wring womb the hormone that causes the cervix to dilate isn't produced. normally by the time you realize what is going on the lambs have been dead for days and the ewe is dieing.
I thought of coccie but your photo of the ewe didn't have the normal signs.
I thought of coccie but your photo of the ewe didn't have the normal signs.
Glad she has been treated and you know what is going on with her.
Hope she feels better soon.
Hope she feels better soon.
I'm not going to go that far, but thanks. She's not in labor.There is one very rare hormonal maladies I have seen it 4 times in 6600 births it is called wring womb the hormone that causes the cervix to dilate isn't produced. normally by the time you realize what is going on the lambs have been dead for days and the ewe is dieing.
I thought of coccie but your photo of the ewe didn't have the normal signs.
Thank you!Glad she has been treated and you know what is going on with her.
Hope she feels better soon.
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