Hay Feeders

Grain Feeders

Water

Mineral Feeders

Lambing Jugs

Sheep Movement Systems

Halters

Gambrel

Head Gate/Stanchion

Crooks

First-Aid Kit

Here are items that you should have in your flock's first-aid kit:

• vet-wrap
• medium sized sterile gauze pads
• scissors
• 5ml and 12 ml syringes
• 20g and 22g needles
• LA-200 (I believe that this is the same as Oxytetracycline, but long-lasting - can be given every other day)
• opthalmic ointment (for pink eye, scratched cornea, whatever-- this contains at least one antibiotic)
• other antibiotic ointment
• aspirin (Ron Parker always recommends this in his Sheep Book)
• sterile sutures with curved surgical needles
• hemostats or clamps for pulling needles through tough hide
• disposable scalpels
• small plastic squirt bottle of dilute Nolvasan solution
• purple wound dressing (Gentian Violet)
• paper towels or clean rags
• Super Glue for wounds and cuts less than 3" (in lieu of stitches)
  
• blood-stop powder (styptic powder, or pencil)
• bag balm
• marker crayons (so you can tell who was already vaccinated or treated)
• Stockholm tar to ward off flies
• horse-type fly spray to repel and kill flies -- permethrin-type
• clean rope halter for sheep
• electrolyte powder and directions for mixing a small batch of solution, or Gatorade or other sports drink for a quick electrolyte drench
• a drenching syringe or 30 or 60 ml syringe for drenching
• plastic tubing to fit syringes for stomach tubing -- lamb and adult size
• a small dog carrier for lambs
• an inexpensive plastic toboggan or tarp for dragging larger sheep from
  point A to point B

• CD/T vaccine
• BoSe
• Thiamine, injectible
• Epinephrine (for treating shock when something else causes an adverse reaction)
• Banamine
• Penicillin G
• Glucose or dextrose solutions
• Sterile water, saline solution, or other suitable sterile solution
• PeptoBismo
• Yogurt
  
• Probios (for treating stomach problems; to maintain a healthy digestive tract)

Lambing Kit

Here are the items you should assemble well before your lambing is scheduled. If you need these items, you will need them quickly and won't have time to go to the feed store at 3AM. You can get all of these things from Premier1.

• A bag of lamb milk replacer; you can buy this at Tractor Supply or Big R year-round so it is available in an emergency. Once opened, keep it in sealed gallon jars, preferably in the freezer. If left too long on the shelf, it becomes rancid. A couple of bay leaves lain on top before you seal will help prevent weevils. BE ALERT: do NOT buy calf milk replacer.
• Also get a bag of colostrum replacer (Colostrx or Kolostral) while you're there. Colostrum contains immunoglobulins that prevent infections; nutrients that fuel heat production and help prevent hypothermia (chilling); and growth factors. By the time you have a bottle baby on your hands, it often is too late to milk the mother for colostrum. If you can milk her, get all you can during the first 24 hours after lambing and freeze it in an ice cube tray for up to a year. Trust me, you will need it later on.
• Two Pritchard Teats (nipples). They fit nicely on a glass or plastic pop bottle. Lambs seem to nurse more willingly on these nipples.
• I personally like giving each newborn lamb a couple squirts of Baby Strength Oral or Nutridrench.   It contains Vitamin E and is a rapid energy source for weak or starving lambs.
• 140 cc syringe. Used for tubing a lamb and also for collecting colostrum when you need to milk a ewe. Get a syringe that has both cc and oz units of measure so that you don't have to do so much math. Premier sells these for $5.00. They are much more convenient than a 60 cc syringe.
• Stomach tube. Connect to the 140-cc syringe to feed lambs that are too weak to nurse or suckle a bottle.
• Digital thermometer  
• The absolute best book I've read on lambing is Laura Lawson's "Managing Your Ewe and Her Newborn Lambs"  Every lambing season I end up hauling it off the shelf and out to the barn. Even if I don't actually need it at the time, it is comforting having it handy when I'm worrying about a problematic ewe who has just begun her labor.
• Heat lamps in the winter to prevent "lamb-cicles."
• Wind break for the ewe to give birth in.
• KY Jelly and long poly gloves in case you have to pull one.
• Clip board and pencil (keep them hanging in the barn)
• Bottle of "waterless soap" gel that eliminates germs. This is handy to wash your hands when there's no water nearby.
• A couple of big towels.
• Betadine surgical scrub 
• Baby scale to record newborn weight 

Common Medications

Manure Management