We waited for her to pass it on her own naturally but by the second day, it had not come out. It did however come out more to the point it touched the ground.
Wanting her to pass it naturally, we decided against administering oxytocin and instead administered 10cc of Penicillin to prevent any infections on the second day and on the third day it finally came off. Actually, Farm Girl pulled it out. You are not suppose to pull a retained placenta out especially that many days after birth since the cervix has closed and who knows what damage you can do, but I told her to give it a try but don't tug, simply see if it is just sitting there. Sure enough, she barely gave it a tug and it popped out of her vulva.
Dark Carmella has been eating and drinking fine and not showing any stress from having the retained placenta in her for three days. She is running and hopping around outside just like all the other ewes. However, last night when I made a last check of the night on them I noticed something on the back of her leg.
It looks like more of her placenta or yet another mucous discharge. I lifted her tail to check her vulva and everything likes nice and healthy there.
I hummed and hawed about taking some milk and colostrum from her still full udder to freeze for emergency backup on any other births, but since I really have no idea why the baby lamb was born deformed, I decided not to in fear there may be some disease present.
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