In early August 2018, we
received a call about a little dorper lamb. He was born a twin, but his sister
died. His mother cleaned him, but then for some unknown reason left him behind.
The farmer attempted to encourage Mum to accept him by putting them in a pen
together. Unfortunately this accidentally resulted in Mum standing on the
little boys tiny head. Casper, as he was lovingly named by his adopter, had
some pretty serious issues. The head wound was quite deep and infected. It
required flushing out daily for a week. He was in a terrible amount of pain so
strong pain relief was given as well as antibiotics. Casper was showing
neurological symptoms which suggested brain swelling. Our vet has told us that
these symptoms may disappear as the swelling went down. There was the
possibility of a small skull fracture which healed well as his bones were
pliable being so young. After a very difficult couple of days he started to
show some signs of improvement. He seemed a lot more content and relaxed which
showed his pain was not as severe as it had been thanks to the medication.
Although he only weighed in at 3 kgs he proved to be an amazing little fighter.
As you can see, Casper recovered fully from his
injury and is loving life as a 2 year old sheep. ???? (Have
no fear, his rough looking coat is because he is a dorper. They are self
shedding so can look a little disheveled at times ????)
Casper
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