shopVet Callout - Live Lamb Birth
Posted 11 Apr 2008
Warning: "This video contains scenes that may upset some viewers". It is advised that you don't watch it while eating your tea! Not for the faint hearted! Hence the 15 certificate - you have been warned! But it is worth watching because it is real and there is a happy ending: both mother and child are now happy, fit and healthy :) This clip wasn't actually taken from the webcam and was taken using my mobile phone. It is the first real "behind-the-scenes" video and features a vet callout in the early hours of Friday morning to assist with a birth. Only in an emergency would we call the vet out and this was one of them: a hogg had been in labour for 3 hours and had made no progress: its lamb was incorrectly presented & the passageway very tight. This is not unusual for a sheep but this was an extreme case. Howard and I were unable to do it ourselves so we had no choice but to call out the vet.
Reader Comments
So glad I dont eat lamb, or red meat, poor thing, they feel pain like we do!
Elaine Fallon on 06 Jun 2008 09:30
i really hate the slaughter of animals. i just hope they have a painless death.
gemmaloveindanni4lif on 11 Nov 2008 14:37
why wasn't this sheep given an epidural? if you need to brace yourself against a sheep to lamb it it needs a caesarean
jenna on 10 Mar 2009 22:32
Thank-you for taking this film - especially when you'd been up all night! We are vet. students and is great to see. Hope they do well...
Emily Willoughby on 25 Jan 2010 11:51
NB the vet had the definitions of the amniotic sac and allantoic sac completely backwards, ie totally wrong
aaron on 30 Aug 2010 21:15