Hi everyone it's Jack here at Mainsgill so today we've got a bit of something different to show you
so me and Rob here got me glamorous assistant and Rob and what we are doing is this ewe here
it doesn't look so bad now but what she's doing is she's prolapsing so why is she doing that is these
are the triplets in here so what it is you get too much pressure inside of sheep with all three lambs
in there sometimes and they start to prolapse so as you can see there's only a little bit there now
but when she lies down it comes out bigger so what we want to do is we're going to get a harness on
her which holds everything tight keeps it right and it just doesn't let that come back out so
we're going to do that now and then it should keep her right because last thing you want is coming in
here in the morning and shoving it all out that's called the lamb bed that's the last thing you want
out so what we're going to do is first of all we've got some water here with hibi scrub some
warm water i'm going to leave it a wash down
if rob can keep hold of it come on fetch it back
so you just give it a clean down the hibi scrub this gives it the right good clean
getting all that dirt because you don't want to push it back in there with the dirt and the muck
and get an infection any bits of straw make sure they're all off
and there we go right so that's off and you just literally pop it back in like that well
it's nice and easy when it's only a little bit like that when it's the size of a football you've
got a problem and what we got here is here's one i produced earlier we have a ewe truss so this goes on
the ewe to hold it in so it's getting out now it's a brand new one this that's why it's in a million
and one bits apparently and what we do we get all these clicked apart might be at first
should have this bit ready
and that clicks onto here
it's been 12 months since i've done this so bear with me and this bit is the bit
that goes around the neck to make sure it doesn't all slide off so that goes round here
right so it's still in there so we do that round there
we've got something to grab hold of if Rob let's go of her
there we go right now this bit here sits with the tail through there so you
gotta get the tail through there and that gap sits there see it like that
Hold her steady Rob. I know don't want her to run off now. Not now most important bit
like that right so that's on now that's positioned in the right place
just needs to be over a bit but what we do is we tighten it up and that'll pull that up
and hold it tight over that we get sat like that what we do is these clips on the side
just pull it through like that tighten that side up and tighten the other side up you're going
to keep it even if you don't want it twisting and popping off one side see i'll keep it even
so see where it's at now you keep checking so there we go
so it's like that it just wants to be up a little bit now so you tighten the top strap now
around here it's a lot of slack there don't make it too tight though you don't want to hang her
have and there we go let's have a look at it
there we go it's sat over she's not impressed being the model but he sat over it's holding it in
there we go Rob. She wanted me to sit down she wants a rest she's fed up with you rob she is oh
girl and there we go just like that so that is Rob and Jack showing you how to put a ewe harness on
you so if you have a prolapse that's what you need to do and also secret tip if it comes out too much
and you can't get it back in if you sprinkle sugar onto the prolapse it makes it shrink and
he starts to pull itself back in so that's the secret tip as well to help you out there you go