Deworming

Farm Girl and I have spent the last couple days deworming half the sheep and her goats.

We don't have any fancy set up or sorting equipment so they are all wrestled down and given their oral injection individually.  The small ones and lambs are easily held down when administering the dewormer.

However the bigger ewes proved more of a challenge so we used our milk stand to contain them.  We finished the last of all our original sheep and now only have the new sheep to do.  

We decided to just deworm everyone at the same time since the new ewes needed to be done anyway.  In other sheep news, I may have another bottle lamb.

This is Dark Carmella's little boy.  The girl died two days after birth after falling into the feeder and not being able to get out and drink from mom.  Unfortunately it occurred over the weekend of Family Day and everything was closed so I was unable to get out and get her anything as she was far too gone.  Lesson learned, always make sure to be prepared during lambing season.  Anyway, we suspect that Dark Carmella is not producing enough milk for him as he looks the same size at 11 days old that he did at birth.  He's also got creamy coloured diarrhea.  Not sure if it's contagious or not, but it's best he stay in the house and get a bottle where I can monitor his intake. I've dewormed him, gave him a penicillin shot and a selenium shot and pedialyte to help the diarrhea.  Fingers crossed for this little guy.