rachels.haven
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Ouch. I'm so sorry, Baymule.
Baymule’s 2024 Lambing plus 12-23
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Baymule
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Thank you Rachel, I appreciate that. I’ve lost 1/3 of my lambs. We have our ups and downs, don’t we? But we get back up, dust off the seat of our pants, and go again. This has been heartbreaking but I have ewes with rams now, will have lambs again and it will get better.
SageHill
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It was looking like it was going to be an awesome year once they were all born - all those lambs.
Then this - my heart goes out to you, fingers crossed for all the others. This could easily happen to any of us.
Then this - my heart goes out to you, fingers crossed for all the others. This could easily happen to any of us.
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BrahmerQueen
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I'm sorry baymule. I'll be praying for you and your flock
Finnie
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This has really been a tough year for you. 
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Baymule
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Thank you, that touches my heart.
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Baymule
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Yes it has, but it will get better.This has really been a tough year for you.
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Baymule
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Last Thursday, August 1, I took scrubby survivors to auction. I took 3 cull ewes as well. Prices were the worst I’ve ever seen. Several people “no sale” their goats and sheep and took them back home. But for the most part, the rest of the sheep and goats were scrubby looking like mine. But they are gone, off the feed bill and I’m moving on.
I kept 7 of the ewe lambs. 2 are from registered parents and will be registered. None of them look outstanding. I hope they grow out good enough in size to breed and give birth with no problems. Right now they are kinda small for their age but I’m hoping they catch up to where they should be. As long as they can have lambs with no problems, genetics will win over the catastrophe that was this spring. Maybe this will give them better resistance to parasites, just by living through it.
I kept 7 of the ewe lambs. 2 are from registered parents and will be registered. None of them look outstanding. I hope they grow out good enough in size to breed and give birth with no problems. Right now they are kinda small for their age but I’m hoping they catch up to where they should be. As long as they can have lambs with no problems, genetics will win over the catastrophe that was this spring. Maybe this will give them better resistance to parasites, just by living through it.
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The bad weather and parasite bloom have culled your 2024 crop for you. Since the ones you have left are seemingly ok, they probably have “more of what it takes” than the culls did. You are moving towards a Super Flock.
