Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

a.bardell — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:17:35 GMT

I have spoken to drug company about this before and off licence dose of estrumate is 0.5 ml im on days 7-12 or days 25-55 post mating to stop pregnancy.

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Mark Rowland — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:37:24 GMT

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Never used it but each of my ewe lambs had perfectly formed and ultimately quite delicious single lambs last year and are happily brewing another batch as we speak. It may not be a disaster.

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When I was farming, we had a couple of ewe lambs that did this, again no probs and i thought that the ewe lambs were way too small

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Sarah Wheeler — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:25:02 GMT

I have used 1mL of estrumate and it worked well.

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

mariette asselbergs — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:03:14 GMT

Thanks a lot! These ewe lambs are really too small to lamb safely!

And they are well under 50 days pregnant so 1 ml FP2 alpha it will be.

Mariette

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:47:54 GMT

By about 50 days into gestation in the ewe the placenta has taken over as the main source of progesterone production. To induce abortion beyond that stage requires corticosteroids. I give 16mg/sheep (8ml dex).

In early cases I do give half the cow PGF2alpha dose

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:34:01 GMT

1 mlshould be sufficient It's what we used back in the days when I did sheep work

Wynne

Re: Termination of pregnancy in ewe lambs

Mark Holmes — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:29:54 GMT

Never used it but each of my ewe lambs had perfectly formed and ultimately quite delicious single lambs last year and are happily brewing another batch as we speak. It may not be a disaster.