1st year moms- wont shut up!~

[L J]

My 2 ewe's are first time moms. They weren't much of noise makers before, but now they baaa out of control. I as soo much look at the pasture, and they go off....and on and on and on.
Its like they think I'm going to steal their babies at any moment.
I can't even walk to the chickens (in a barn the opposite direction of the sheep) and they won't stop baa'ing.

Is this normal?

Really glad we don't have neighbors too close, its getting a bit annoying !

 

[Latestarter]

sorry... had to @Sheepshape @Roving Jacobs @secuono @purplequeenvt Others?

 

[Roving Jacobs]

One of mine actually baa-ed herself hoarse this year yelling about her baby.

As long as they are getting appropriate amounts of food and they aren't yelling about an actual issue I'd just ignore it. One of my shearing clients managed to teach her sheep to scream at her until she went out and fed them so I would recommend not paying any attention to them and definitely don't feed them while they're hollering their heads off.

 

[Sheepshape]

Giving birth seems to make some sheep find their voices.....some of them continually baa at their lambs and some lambs do a lot of vocalising,too. It seems some mums cannot let their lambs out of sight and some lambs cannot let the ewe out os site....others barely respond.

The ewes are probably begging for food....they're very hungry whilst making milk. Make sure they are well fed....and then ignore them!

First timers are often the noisiest....they like the world to know about their birth success.

 

[Baymule]

Mine yell at me all the time. They have eagle eyes, bloodhound noses and the sonic hearing of a bat. They also have some kind of physic brain waves when I even think about going outside. I adore them. They follow me like a litter of puppies. Annoying? Not in the least.

 

[SpringCrkFarmTN]

I love that sound, especially when they pair up in the evenings to be fed. It's crying time at my house! All the mamas are calling out for their babies & babies running around frantically hollering for their mamas. Then as sudden as it started, sweet silence when they are all paired up. Love it

 

[Sheepshape]

My lambs have found a hole through the fence which I haven't been able to find. Every night for the last 2 nights, when it has gone dark, there was a horrendous panicky noise of bleats from ewes and lambs who are on different sides of the fence. So out I go with torches to scale the fence and push my way through the thick undergrowth and over the very slippery rocks in the stream to catch up the 2 or 3 lambs. At night they are quite co-operative, but by day they are not....and I start to wonder who will die of exhaustion first.....

Today they moved fields...enough is enough.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That does NOT sound like fun.

 

[Latestarter]

So, you've thwarted them henceforth! They've played their diabolical little game once too often it appears. I sit and wonder what the little miscreants will come with now? I also picture in my mind; Sheepshape out after dark, fighting her way through the dense underbrush and wading the stream wearing nothing but jammies and slippers, covered with a bathrobe flapping in the breeze, her flashlight sweeping the darkness ahead as she moves toward the sound of weak bleets. Yeah, smiling and glad it's not me Hope you find their escape route and get it buttoned up. If they can escape, it seems to me that something else could use the same opening to get in.

 

[L J]

I feel like they are gettin ga lot of food, extra grain, alfalfa and a nicely grassy field to graze all day. I'll up it a little more just in case.

Lucille sounds like a machine gun, hence her nickname, "Machine Gun Lucille" her baby is a mini machine gun LOL