I feel so bad

[rossi]

i have just had to do the worse thing i have ever had to do.
this morning the sheep that live out the back of our house started lambing.
twolambs were abandned by there mother so me being the good guy went to the rescue.
brought them home got some lamb milk for them.they were doing wellbut one had a big problem and it wouldnt have made it another 30 mins so i had no chouce but to knock him on the head.(Will never ever do that again)
i feel bit down at the moment i dont know how farmers can do this sort of thing.
god im soft :bye:

[ManDownUnder]

Soft is good. Being humane is hard sometimes.... but anyone that loses that tenderness, that respect for life loses my respect with it.

Tis the way the world goes round I'm afraid.

[Trudes]

Sounds like you did the best you could and did the humane thing and put it out of its misery, so don't feel too bad about it, it's just a shame we can't do the same for our own kind.:sunny:

[007XX]

i have just had to do the worse thing i have ever had to do.
this morning the sheep that live out the back of our house started lambing.
twolambs were abandned by there mother so me being the good guy went to the rescue.
brought them home got some lamb milk for them.they were doing wellbut one had a big problem and it wouldnt have made it another 30 mins so i had no chouce but to knock him on the head.(Will never ever do that again)
i feel bit down at the moment i dont know how farmers can do this sort of thing.
god im soft :bye:


Like MDU said, nothing wrong with being humane...You were being kind to that poor little thing...and it takes a strong person to do it even though you felt like this about it.

[babyblade250rr]

yeah you sure have done the right thing, think of the suffering the lamb was going through untill your relieved it.

Done the right thing mate:yes:

[vifferman]

I know how you feel, Mate.
A while back, the kids had pet rats, and one of them was really sick, and was distressing them, so they asked me to put him down. It was actually quite a job finding some way that wasn't inhumane (or is that un-ratlike?)
Made me feel really bad.

[The Pastor]

lamb on the spit tonite boys!

[MyGSXF]

Not a pleasant thing to have to do at all.. :no:

Sending you a big :hug:

Hey, how is the other little one doing though?????? Good on you for trying your best to help the poor wee darlings!!! :2thumbsup

Jen :rockon:

[Scorpygirl]

Not a nice thing to have to do mate but the kindest! Hugz to you.

[T-Thunder13]

lamb on the spit tonite boys!

hahaha nice. a little insensitive to some but funny.

cheer up mate you did what you had too. i know how you feel, killing somthing helpless has a horrible after shock. some of those farmers are tough bugers

[Littleman]

i have just had to do the worse thing i have ever had to do.
this morning the sheep that live out the back of our house started lambing.
twolambs were abandned by there mother so me being the good guy went to the rescue.
brought them home got some lamb milk for them.they were doing wellbut one had a big problem and it wouldnt have made it another 30 mins so i had no chouce but to knock him on the head.(Will never ever do that again)
i feel bit down at the moment i dont know how farmers can do this sort of thing.
god im soft :bye:

Either your:

A Looking for a date(chicks love this stuff) or

B You took in the bigger picture.

I had to put a much loved pet out of its misery(in a similar manner).

It had to be done.

[rossi]

thanks for the suport guys and gals.
lamb number two doing well back with his mum and if she not want anything to do with it the will hand rear it.

[Jantar]

Yes, its that time of year. I have also had to put lambs down in the past, and it is always hard.

Our sheep started lambing this morning with the first ewe giving birth to twins. A lovely black ram lamb, and a white female.

[MyGSXF]

lamb number two doing well back with his mum

:banana: woohoo.. great news!! :yes: cross fingers it stays that way!!!!! :woohoo:

you done good Rossi!!! :rockon:

[Laava]

A farmer friend of the olds said to them " if you got animals, you get dead animals". Can be brutal sometimes but there you go.
If you have trouble getting the sheep to take her lamb back, as a last resort try siccing the dog on the lamb. Sounds cruel but the mothering instinct can kick back in! Good luck!

[Mom]

I am happily settled back in the no sheep reality. Hat off to you being able to do that. It was the right thing to do!

Me, I am the saver of life, went to extraordinary lengths to save new born lambs, been midwife more times than I ever want to, buried baby lambs (once they were my babies) chucked others down the offal pit. Meh....tis nature!

[rossi]

i think the farmer is going to let us know how the wee bugger got on but he looked good when he left so heres hoping

[NotaGoth]

Good on you for having a heart...

I have a huge heart when it comes to animals.. But when it comes to putting one out of its misery I just can't do it...

I mean.. I'm the girl who passed out on the floor at the vets... Fat lot of luck I'd have....

You did the best you could.. Most would have just turned a blind eye from the start...

[swbarnett]

i dont know how farmers can do this sort of thing.
god im soft :bye:
You're not soft. You're warm hearted.

Farmers are conditioned to not looking at a food animal as anything but meat. I grew up every other weekend on a pig farm. I was present as a young lad at some of the killings. To this day I will never see a pig as anything other than a nice cut of pork. Although I do eat venison I don't see deer this way and I don't think I could ever kill one.

[Beemer]

I know the feeling well. The first year we had sheep one was having twins and needed the vet's assistance. That was fine, but about October one of the sheep we didn't know was pregnant had a lamb. It had a deformed front leg and seemed very weak and she kept pawing it to try and get it to stand. I put them in a small holding pen and tried to get it to drink but it was too weak. I got some colostrum from a local farmer and fed it myself for three days but it wasn't getting any better. The attached shot is of him while he was looking like he would make it. We are too soft to put them out of their misery ourselves so I took it to the vet to be put down. Unfortunately the young vet had trouble finding a vein and then had to give two doses as the poor thing just wouldn't die. I tell you, I was just as upset as I was when we took our old cat to be put down. Then last year the same sheep that had trouble the first year had twins again. They arrived okay but she rejected the second one. I wasn't up to being its mother for months so we offered it to a local school kid for lamb and calf day. (It won!) A few months ago our ram had to be put down so we got a neighbour to shoot him as it would be quick. Unfortunately he used a .22 and despite three shots, he was still alive so he had to rush home for his .303. As animal lovers, you can imagine how upset we were - we'd tried to put him out of his misery quickly but the poor thing suffered for about 10 minutes. It still haunts us today.

So I can totally sympathise, despite it all you do become attached to them if you only have a few animals and I know I wouldn't have the strength to be a farmer and deal with that kind of thing on a larger scale.

[jrandom]

Unfortunately he used a .22 and despite three shots, he was still alive so he had to rush home for his .303.

Dear me.

Where did he shoot the poor thing? A .22 behind the ear should do for just about anything.

[Beemer]

Dear me.

Where did he shoot the poor thing? A .22 behind the ear should do for just about anything.

He has cattle so we figured he would know where to shoot as he'd said he'd put some of his own animals down when they were suffering. We don't own guns and have no experience with them but apparently you have to shoot sheep through the back of the head if using a .22. He shot him through the front and of course that only caused pain and suffering but didn't kill him. We got someone else to shoot the last sheep we needed putting down and he used a high calibre weapon and killed it with one shot. My husband was so upset and we both felt bad for weeks after the incident with the ram. He was a really gentle animal and he didn't deserve to die like that.

Having animals sucks when they are sick or dying!

[ynot slow]

They raise about 250-350 calves each year,after my seperation I stayed with them,helped with calves.Most of the sick ones recovered,but a few also died naturally as he couldn't deal with them.One night he said if I could shoot a sick calf,did so and he buried it.They had an old cat put down by vet and bought it home to bury,but left it in a box on deck for couple of days,talk about stink lol.Agree it's not nice to do but is humane thing.

[rossi]

beemer i know what thats like.when i knocked thelamb on the head he just cryed sadly it took 5 blows to put him out and i think thats what made it so bad.i remember when we had our dog put down we brought him home to bury and me tears in my eyes carring him up the path (he was very heavy) he sliped out of my arms and straght on to the concrete.that made me feel bad too

[terbang]

Business as usual down on the farm eh. We used to skin the dead lambs and make a coat out of it for the mismothered ones. It's the smell that the mother recognises and after wearing the rather gruesome coat for a day or so, they had a new mother and all were happy again.