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Louisdog
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Pel
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I would see if she is immune against toxoplasmosis, as I understood it to be this is the main one to do with lambing. She would just need a blood test to see if she is, though when I had the bloods taken at 8 weeks (which is the first lot of bloods that are taken when you become pregnant) they automatically checked for it.
If she is immune then if she really needs to help with lambing than at least this is one less thing to worry about, but if she can avoid lambing that would be best. Otherwise wear overalls, gloves and wellies and shower down well afterwards, and put clothes and overalls in a hot wash after, maybe get some else to touch them or use two sticks to pick them up and put in wash.
If she isn't immune don't go anywhere near the sheep at lambing, it would be horrid to think of what could happen (it might not, but something could).
Agree with Marionb, all should be fine for general handling, just watch out for being bumped into by sheep.
She could carry a little bottle of sterile hand wash, so every time after handling sheep (or doing anything grubby), she could wash her hands (i did this after someone else pointed it out to me... I think it may have been Dot).
Cae seemed to turn out fine, and I handled lots of different sheep whilst pregnant with him, but didn't lamb anything.
It might be different if the pregnancy is high risk though.
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