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Cloudy eyes in Soay sheep – a mostly wintertime issue

Does one of your sheep have a cloudy, bluish-looking eye, what you might call a “walleyed” look? Is the animal behaving as if it might not be able to see well or is bumping into things? If so, it probably has scratched its eyeball or gotten poked in the eye and injured its cornea. There […]

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Diagnosing lameness in Soay sheep

Yesterday one of our neighbors knocked on our door, distressed that a pregnant Suffolk ewe on his nearby farm had become lame about four days earlier and, instead of getting better, she has declined to the point of not eating.  The neighbor was hoping our experience with Soay sheep would carry over into helping him […]

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Break A Leg:  Venus lambs successfully, and how!

Break A Leg: Venus lambs successfully, and how!

Neither traditional dictionaries nor any of the numerous websites that trace the history of “Break A Leg” have seen fit to include lambing in their list of definitions, or Soay lambing as a possible source for the expression.  They obviously haven’t been reading this blog. Breaking a leg sure brought Venus good luck.  Last year, with her leg intact, she delivered a pair of […]

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Venus update

Venus update

Several readers kindly have inquired after the progress of our pregnant Soay sheep Venus and her broken leg.  After we got her home on Friday and into the tiny cubicle pictured in my earlier post, we pretty much left her alone, thinking complete rest would be best, and we did not want to give her a chance […]

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A pregnant Soay sheep with a broken leg – what to do?

A pregnant Soay sheep with a broken leg – what to do?

Just when we thought we could relax and wait for lambing to begin, Steve came back to the house looking agitated and clearly worried. He discovered one of our pregnant ewes, Venus, in dire straits in the Maternity Ward. Here’s his report:  “When I first saw Venus out of the corner of my eye, I thought […]

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