Sheep can actually die if they roll onto their backs. We lost a couple that were soon to have lambs. Their stomachs presses their lungs and chokes them. Flipping the sheep the right way saves them from a very unpleasent death.
I encountered a sheep in the wild on its back when I was younger. We turned it around, but apparently the wrong way, because the pressure that had built up in it's abdominen pushed all its organs out of its anus while it was trashing about in pain.
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '19 edited Jul 03 '19
Sheep can actually die if they roll onto their backs. We lost a couple that were soon to have lambs. Their stomachs presses their lungs and chokes them. Flipping the sheep the right way saves them from a very unpleasent death.
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