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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Moon; I'm so sorry about your ewe. That sort of thing happens to me a 
lot. Sheep, phooey. They are born looking for a way to die. Their legs 
are their weakest spots...a day doesn't go by that I don't have one ewe 
or another limping. These things always happen at night. Often in a 
blizzard. I once had a calf born outside in sub-zero weather in the 
middle of the night. By the time I dragged it to the barn, it's legs had 
frozen. I was up all night with a hair dryer on it's legs (it survived, 
but it's legs were never right).

I don't really have any advice. If you can afford it, and she's not in 
pain or moving too much, you could wait until tomorrow and have the vet 
out. I've actually seen sheep with splints; I don't know if they had 
actual breaks or just sprains or what. I always have this hope that 
something can be done, although it rarely works out that way. At least a 
vet could help you deal with putting her down. I hate going through 
things like that alone. Then you've got the body to deal with...I've 
dragged many a dead animal to a spot where I could compost them. I'm 
sorry. It sucks.

Lynn Wigglesworth

paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
> I went out to do night check and lo and behold, there is one of my  
> ewes, dragging her hind leg around. Not a mark on it but I am almost  
> positive it's broken. Roy is in Virginia, I can't hit a vein without  
> someone to hold her, I don't have a gun here. Eff me.
> 
> I can go out there with a big damn knife and slit her throat, which I  
> really, really, really don't want to do, or call the vet in and have  
> her put down in the middle of a Friday effing night and have the vet  
> charge me out the effing ***.
> 
> I got enough Banamine into her IM that I'm sure the pain isn't  
> horrendous, but I've never od-ed something on IM drugs, I don't even  
> know if it can be done.
> 
> And to make it worse, this ewe was one of our orphans, which Roy  
> pretty much bottle raised and whom he has an attachment to.
> 
> Can I just say again, EFF ME and my stupid effing luck. Poor ewe.
> 
> Ok. Now I need to go figure out how to kill this poor beast.
> 
> Bugger.
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