2022 Waiting on Lambs Journal

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Lickety-Split is being picky, so ground her food up.

 

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Neem, 0164 ram from last year.
FB is an easy way to get updates on your stock growing up. Annoyingly, selling after a year or two is highly common. I don't get it, pay so much just to use for such a short bit of time.

He turned out nice.

 

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Another update!

Scrotal hernia ramling this time.
He's big, he's needy & he's adorable.
Baby pic is 1st to remind people of what he looked like. See how the spotting is muddled once wool grows in?

 

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The big boys getting along with ramlings.

And Lickety-Split. Has a checkup tomorrow.

 

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Dry cast with room, so 3 more weeks before possible removal.

 

[farmerjan]

Is it healing okay except slowly? Looks like she is getting along pretty good though.
The change in the color and the white mottling blending in is a big wow.... nice lamb and fantastic growth. Sorry he's got a problem with the hernia. Can they grow out of it? Surgical fix ? Or just castrate and make a wether?

 

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Is it healing okay except slowly? Looks like she is getting along pretty good though.
The change in the color and the white mottling blending in is a big wow.... nice lamb and fantastic growth. Sorry he's got a problem with the hernia. Can they grow out of it? Surgical fix ? Or just castrate and make a wether?

Yes, vet said it looked great. He likes to do a 3wk check because so many end up wet and gross or other breeds grow so fast that it has to be changed.


I banded the sac to keep everything up inside. As I didn't want to risk it suddnly spilling out a lot and be an emergency. If I had done it a day sooner, I could of separated the testicles from the intestines and make him a wether, but that didn't happen.

The new owner had their vet remove testicles when they surgically fixed the defect.

Hope they send a shearing pic next year, as the contrast will "come back" for awhile. White area gets more n more black speckling over time, making it even more muddled.

 

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Resting on the bad leg. That's a good sign?

 

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Caught all the ewes for eye trims & health checks. Missing one white lamb that was bought in. Eventually found the remains.
Then kicked out the tall sheep, to stop them from breaking my hot wire fence all of the dang time, and all of the lambs + one adult. She's too weak overall to how wet this farm is, so I'll be selling her off. Tatiana & Fuddy-Duddy are also listed, trying to focus on the better woolley sheep.
About 18 days before breeding season starts.
Graining the sheep that were removed from the brood ewes. Not a ton of grass available, nor anywhere else to really put them than the barn/back yards.

 

[Alaskan]

Caught all the ewes for eye trims & health checks. Missing one white lamb that was bought in. Eventually found the remains.
Then kicked out the tall sheep, to stop them from breaking my hot wire fence all of the dang time, and all of the lambs + one adult. She's too weak overall to how wet this farm is, so I'll be selling her off. Tatiana & Fuddy-Duddy are also listed, trying to focus on the better woolley sheep.
About 18 days before breeding season starts.
Graining the sheep that were removed from the brood ewes. Not a ton of grass available, nor anywhere else to really put them than the barn/back yards.
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Do you know how you lost the white lamb?