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04/04/2025
Hello, and now its time for March’s Farm and Equine Blog, feels like we have blinked, and March has come to an end.
The days are becoming longer with the clocks changing and new lambs are being born at an impressive rate. There is still lots going on with the farm side of things this month!
With this always comes some more difficult lambings, whether that involves the Ewe prolapsing, ringwomb occurring, the lamb just being to big or multiple lambs trying to come out at once. This can be fixed with gently applying traction to one of the lambs and moving it back so that one lamb can be delivered at a time. Sometimes though we can end up having to do a caesarean for example with some of these bigger lambs, which I have had to do with a few cases this month. One case was scanned for twins but the ewes pelvis was just a bit too small to fit the huge head her offspring had.
In this case, we chose to do a caesarean with a lovely outcome of two live lambs and mum was very keen to start cleaning them straight away. It’s always a lovely part of the job to get to see such a nice moment between an animal and their offspring, especially when the ewe was already up and standing before I was leaving.
Calvings have also been keeping us busy whether that be helping deliver the calves, performing caesareans or splinting some legs that may have been damaged at birth or are born with abnormalities, so look like they are walking on their knuckles or may have a break. These can be splinted or cast depending on the case to help the calf get around and still drink as normal.
We have still been seeing some laminitis cases on the equine front over the past month, as Sophie touched on last month. As well as some colic cases, luckily most of these have gotten better with medical management of pain relief and an antispasmodic. The most common signs that can be seen with colic are pawing repeatedly, looking at their flank/ kicking at their flank. They may be lying down and getting up/ rolling. These are always signs to keep an eye out for.
All in all there has been lots to do in March. Lets hope the weather continues to improve into May and we can continue to have lovely drives out and about through the Aberdeenshire countryside.
I would like to thank all our clients when I have been out to see them on calls, and look forward to meeting more while I am out and about on large animal days.
Louise
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