Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[Bridgemoof]

Good luck with your babies Southern! I should try a shock collar :/ I would love to separate out Uriah from the girls and put him with my two wethers. But I will have to put them in a very small stall to start so Uriah doesn't kill them. Then I can put them...hmmmm...somewhere? Somewhere, I don't know where.

Nothing new on #26. She totally PUNKED me yesterday! The other 2 ewes are in lambing jugs as well. Tim and I took turns getting up last night and nada.

 

[CocoNUT]

You know Bridge...I think #26 is just fat! She eats too well or something!
Uriah will be tamed...either by shock collar...or hello kitty duct tape and jingle bells. Hey...I'll come wrestle with him...and let you tag team me! The Evil One got quite excited at the mention of coming out to your place! When I told her we had to 'pretty up' Uriah, she said "I'll bring my lip gloss!"

 

[Southern by choice]

Good Morning Bridge- How is #26?

Hope your weekend is going a bit better. I get a bit overwhelmed here too. It seemed like there was a season where we were just always playing catch-up and moving everyone around, or needing more fencing or shelters or constantly running out of feed and making a mad dash for something etc. There have been so many times I've thought is this worth all this stress? I do have lots of help, the physical part is mostly handled by all the older ones and straw, but it's the management that is the stressful part. Oh well I guess I should lament on my journal... not yours.

Stay warm.... good weather is on its way!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Hi Southern!

Yes it gets overwhelming. I want to take about 5 days off! I'm not happy at all with the current situation with where everybody is. The goats had their babies first, so they get all the good spots. The sheep are overcrowded and crammed into a small area. Anyways, it's just tough.

But yes, warmer weather is on the way and I'm looking forward to the...MUD again Oh well, you can't win I guess in the winter time. Spring can't be here soon enough!

#26 is just holding steady. I think I must have seen her peeing the other day and thought it was mucous. But she's huge, in a small lambing jug and not getting any exercise. I worry about her. Do you know now it's been 2 months since Tim took her to the vet to get an ultrasound and he said she was in her final stages? So much for that diagnoses! I would think though if her babies were not alive, she would have delivered them by now.

 

[CocoNUT]

 

[bonbean01]

hmmm...wonder if 26 is in labour right now?

 

[Bridgemoof]

No LOL #26 is such an anomaly!!!!

But I'm following the other two pregnant ewes around watching for them to go...today would be an excellent day! It's 70!!!! Tomorrow it's rain and thunderstorms. I'm not quite sure if they are there yet. Well at least everybody is outside getting some fresh air.

 

[Shelly May]

Animals love to go into labor in the stormy weather, It keeps the predators from hearing those loud painful labor screams

 

[Bridgemoof]

That's funny Shelly May, but probably true! That and the changes in the pressure systems seem to throw them into labor. Plus they love to see us struggling during a downpour!

 

[Shelly May]

I can picture you soak and wet, and jumping out of your skin everytime thunder strikes and trying to watch your every step, so you don't fall on your Butt