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Vet Callout - Live Lamb Birth

An emergency required a vet callout to assist the birth of a lamb. CONTAINS BLOOD

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.

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So glad I dont eat lamb, or red meat, poor thing, they feel pain like we do!

i really hate the slaughter of animals. i just hope they have a painless death.

why wasn't this sheep given an epidural? if you need to brace yourself against a sheep to lamb it it needs a caesarean

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...

NB the vet had the definitions of the amniotic sac and allantoic sac completely backwards, ie totally wrong

hey haw are you