Baymule’s 2021 Lambing

[farmerjan]

A bundle of joy, fun, laughs.... you name it. SOOO cute!

 

[Kusanar]

I love in the first picture how Tiny decided to kneel while drinking.. She thinks she's big!

 

[thistlebloom]

It's all beautiful!

 

[bethh]

The 13 year old granddaughter went on a Christian retreat with a friend and her family. She will be back Friday night. Our DD and DSIL went away to rest, sleep, do nothing and put their stressed brains back together. They will be back Friday. The two little girls are here. They have bottle fed the lambs, the lambs nibble their rubber boots, jackets, pants, hair, whatever they can get. The girls are delighted.

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Ewenique came up for her share of attention. She’s never going anywhere. Pictures like this are priceless.

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A mischievous lamb tugging on jacket fringe!

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Tiny learning how to unzip a jacket.

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These are precious picture.

 

[Baymule]

Well, since I can't part with Reject, he is going to be a companion for Ringo. Who am I kidding? I love this little stinker and just can't part with him, He'll probably be more my pet than a ram companion, but that's ok. Since we are going to keep him, I changed his name from Reject to Panda because of his black eye spots. He's too cute and personable to keep calling him Reject. We borrowed the banding contraption from @Devonviolet and banded him 4 days ago on Monday. After his bottle, he just wants lots of petting and scratches. I sit on the milk crate and he lays his head in my lap. I don't think I need to raise any more bottle lambs, I just can't part with them! Now I have to teach Panda his new name.

 

[Show Sebright]

Ok, it started a little early, there will be another one, but the rest will be in February 2021.
I had Ringo with 2 ewes to sell as bred ewes. The buyer lost his job due to Covid and oil patch layoffs. He found another job, but not what he was making. House note, car notes, wife and 3 kids supersedes buying a couple of ewes. I totally get that and told him when things improve for him, if he still wants to raise a few Sheep, we will get him fixed up.

Domino had twins last night, a ram and ewe. Of course they are adorable.

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The ram lamb.

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The ewe lamb

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Domino had a single her first lambing, he was big and his front feet were bent forward at the pastern, but they straightened out. She is small and short coupled, her sire was that short backed Dorper ram I had. LOL Autocorrect changed sire to diet. That’s not even close!

If she had one lamb, she seemed to be content, ignoring the bleats from the other lamb. I never jug my ewes, but thought I might oughta jug this trio. All those other ewes were confusing the lambs, all 3 needed some close time together. Autocorrect changed JUG to HUG! I do too hug my sheep!

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The space is horse wire on 3 sides, 1 side is a cow panel. I put a half of a hog panel over it and tied it tight with hay twine. They are so tiny and not attached to their mom enough to suit me. I was afraid they would pop through the cow panel.

Sheba and Sentry went in the barn with me to check out the lambs. Another reason I jugged them, Sheba was VERY intent on the lambs. Guardian instinct kicking in? Oh boy! New play toys? I dunno and don’t want cow panel popping lambs to find out. She will get lots of supervised lamb time, but they need to get acquainted with Mom first.

Domino is on my cull list, nice of her to give me two lambs for auction.

Why do you shave the bottom half is the ewe and leave the top unshaven? It looks funny but I think there is a reason to it.

 

[Kusanar]

Why do you shave the bottom half is the ewe and leave the top unshaven? It looks funny but I think there is a reason to it.

They aren't shaved, they are hair sheep that are shedding

 

[farmerjan]

Some of the hair sheep breeds have some wooled sheep in the background and it is dominant. So it takes FOREVER for it to get bred out. In the meantime, the ones that have it, will shed with the wool part mostly on the top, not shedding well or even at all. Our White Texas Dall sheep have some wool back in the one line we were using.... so there were some that did not shed as well.... and we are talking generations back...
Some of the hair sheep shed cleaner and faster than others. Our Dalls that are straight bred, shed fast and clean, like a goat sheds out. And no, there is no "goat blood" in the sheep.

One thing, wooled sheep are often "crutched" before lambing. The wool around the hindquarters and the back of the belly towards the udder is "sheared" so that the lamb has a better and easier chance to find the udder and suck without getting on the wool and not getting the teat.

 

[Baymule]

These are hair sheep. Some of these don’t shed off real good. I will eventually cull out the ones that don’t shed well.

 

[rachels.haven]

They aren't shaved, they are hair sheep that are shedding

You're not supposed to tell them that! You're supposed to make something up, like with lamancha ears.