You may remember that this time last year we brought a lamb back from the dead. It was hypothermic, immobile, wet and cold but an injection of 20% glucose solution into the peritoneal cavity before warming saved it. Last night it happened again after a day of biting cold only this time there were two frozen lambs.
After last year's episode when the revived lamb skipped around my kitchen peeing on the floor I made an alternative lamb warmer. Its just a wooden box with an infra red lamp but it does just as good a job as the Rayburn. Glucose, then colostrum via a stomach tube and finally a drink of warm goat's milk brought them both round within a couple of hours and they were back with their mum in a windproof, dry shed.
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After last year's episode when the revived lamb skipped around my kitchen peeing on the floor I made an alternative lamb warmer. Its just a wooden box with an infra red lamp but it does just as good a job as the Rayburn. Glucose, then colostrum via a stomach tube and finally a drink of warm goat's milk brought them both round within a couple of hours and they were back with their mum in a windproof, dry shed.
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