Care of new born lamb:
- Ensure that nose and mouth are free membranes and mucoid fluid immediately after birth.
- Place the lamb in a clean and sheltered place.
- Clean the mucus from the body of lamb and make it dry.
- Let the ewe also lick her lamb for:
(a) Cleaning and removal of mucus from lamb’s body.
(b) Establishing the affinity between lamb and ewe.
- Leaving 3 cm from the body cut the navel cord with sterilized scissors and treat with tincture iodine.
- Mark the lamb and give permanent number and record age and number or ewe, sex of lamb, date horn.
- Weight the lamb and record it (normal birth weight varies from 2.5 to 3.5 kg in Indian sheep).
- Help the lamb to reach the teats of ewe for suckling.
- Makes sure that lamb gets first milk.
- Protected the lamb getting chill by wrapping in Jute/blanket.