The normal temperature of a lamb is 39-40 ° C 102-104 ° F . The main causes of hypothermia is exposure and starvation. Lambs suffering from starvation hypothermia will have a low blood glucose level.If this glucose level is not corrected before the lamb is warmed up it is likely that the lamb will die from a fit during warming up. It is more common for a lamb to die from hypothermia than disease. Lambs are usually born during the coldest months of the year.If the lamb cannot maintain the correct body temperature it can lead to death. Many of these deaths can be avoided by good farm management. A smaller lamb will chill faster than a larger lamb. Some lambs are born with thicker coats than others these seem to be able to ward of the cold more than the thinner coated lambs. The risk of hypothermia is also increased if a lamb is a twin or triplet or from an inexperienced sheep. The quicker a lamb is licked dry by the mother the less likely it is to get chilled. If a lamb

  Powder colostrum Lamb milk replacer 9% tenture of iodine /navel spray/navel dip Stomach tube and syringe Hot box for heating up sick lamb Heat lamp Rectal thermometer Nylon rope Foot trimmer Shearmaster Needles Mineral Oil Drenching syringes Antibiotics Eartags Laxatives Lubricant Bottles and teats Elaster bands Balling guns Electrolytes Burdizzo clamp Dextrose for weak lambs Slaked lime Eye ointment Pepto bismol Scour tablets Aspirin Worming medicine Propylene glyol Uterine boluses for assisted deliveries and retained placentas   feeding weak lamb colostrum with tube and syringe tube and syringe for feeding week lamb colostrum

When the newborn lamb arrives remove the mucus from its nose. You can also gently smack its back.You must ensure that the lamb is breathing immediately after birth.Gently pressing its ribcage can start the breathing.You can also tickle its nose with some straw.If the lamb is still not breathing you can hold the lamb from its hind legs and swing him from side to side. Rubbing the lamb also helps. When you are sure the lamb is breathing encourage the ewe to lick and bond with the lamb. Spray the lambs navel with iodine as soon as possible to ward off infection. Unplug the ewes teat by giving it a tug. Check also that she has milk. It is vital that the lamb gets it first suck of colostrum from the ewe. If the lamb is weak and not able to suck you must milk the ewe and tube feed the lamb.Use the tube and syringe.Ensure that you put the tube into the lambs stomach not its lungs. If you are nervous and not sure if you have put the tube in correctly, put the tube in a glass of wa

The naval of the newborn lamb is an entry point for infectious diseases. To avoid infections naval stumps should be disinfected directly after birth. Spray or dip the navels with antiseptic solution. Most farmers today use iodine spray found in farm supply shops. When you want to apply the naval spray hold the lamb up by its two front legs and give a generous spray. The naval spray will dry and shrivel up the naval. If the navel after a few hours has not shriveled up reapply the navel spray/dip Clip the naval cord /umbilical cord if it is very long, some lambs are born with very long naval. If the naval is too long the lamb or sheep could step on it causing severe bleeding Navel's longer than 2 inches should be clipped closer to the body.    If the naval is not treated it can cause infections in the brain, liver, joints, spinal cord or elsewhere which can lead to death in the lamb .   Nave ill and joint ill are two common infections lambs get from not trea

         Colostrum is the first milk that the sheep produces after giving birth. This milk is thicker than the milk produced later by the sheep. Colostrum contains alot of nutrients and antibodies that are vital for the lambs survival . At birth the lamb does not have any antibodies as the sheep's antibodies do not cross the placenta. It is critical that the lambs receive colostrum during the first 24 hours of life. Absorption of these vital antibodies and nutrients from the colostrum is most effective during the first few hours after birth.   A lamb should receive 10 percent of their body weight in colostrum in the first 24 hours of birth.     The possibility of death in a lamb that does not receive colostrum in the first 24 hours is very high. In some cases the lamb does survive in a germ free environment but on a busy farm this is highly unlikely. This is why you have a  lamb that is perfect at birth but starts to fade and die a few days later as

Lamb milk replacer, Frisky is a good brand Bottles, plastic or glass Rubber teats Electrolyte to be used for a speedy recovery when the lamb is sick Warm, cosy draft free place for the lamb to sleep Colostrum powder, this needs to be the lambs first meal. Providing the lambs with antibodies that they usually get from mother Feeding tubes, for feeding the first meal of colostrum Naval dip Penicillin, some farmers like to give half a cc at birth Hot box, its like an incubator for lambs to heat them up if they are very cold and ill