Trying to Help a Poorly Lamb (SBV)
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2017-01-16

Trying to help a poorly lamb whose siblings died at birth from probable SBV. This lamb on the outside looked fine and healthy and even thrived for a little while after it was born. The problem was its 2 siblings only lived for moments when they were born very small and deformed. It is highly likely that this lamb had something wrong inside of it. Sadly one can not look inside the skin of a living animal to find the malfunctioning part and repair it like a machine with a few nuts and bolts. This has been an emotionally tough lambing with all the abortions and deformed lambs but this is farming you must take the good years with the bad years..... It all evens out in the end



Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious.