Brown Sheep 2014 Lambing-New Pictures

[BrownSheep]

Two more ewes yesterday. Freckles, the very wide ewe from earlier, is the one who had the

 

[BrownSheep]

We unfortunately lost one of Molly's twins. The other isn't looking so hot either. I'm wondering if she could sense something was off and that's why she was indifferent towards them

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Congrats on all the babies!!!!

Sorry about the twin.

Have you had any issues with UC by wethering the lambs so young? I don't know much about sheep. With goats lots people say NEVER castrate a kid that young. I take it sheep are fine?

 

[BrownSheep]

We haven't had and issue with it nor have I heard of anybody else.

A lot of big/old operations swear the younger they are the better they handle the stress of it. Which thus far I have to agree. I've done everything from 2 days old to 2.5 months and so far the younger ones are fairing better. The oldest ones I have done actually lost a lot of weight and are a little dwarfed from the stress it had one them.

We generally do it from a week to 2 weeks.

He just happened to be around when we did the batch of slightly older lambs.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Very interesting. Thanks!

 

[BrownSheep]

Well, Freckles ended up "passing" three more lambs, all still born.
Molly's remaining twin passed. I'm suspecting there was an underlying issue, going off how Molly( an experienced and loving momma) just ignored them.
It really upset my sister, who is ready to be done with sheep. I think these losses just really hurt her and she is tired of the work.

Two more should be going soon.

 

[norseofcourse]

So sorry for the losses

 

[BrownSheep]

Clara had 4 lambs. It looked like 2 didn't make it when my dad pulled up. More later

 

[BrownSheep]

Well, two were dead. They were much smaller than the two surviving ram lambs. They are doing fine after a little TLC out of the rain.

Clara and Freckles are sisters both have lambed with triplets their other 2 lambings.

I almost wonder if they got bred on a second heat since they both had much smaller lambs in conjuncture with the surviving ones.

I've been naughty about pictures but will try to upload some.

 

[BrownSheep]

Black ewe lamb with the two of the ram lambs from the first week. ( The white one could be the ewe lamb I can't tell if it has a tag)

The two surviving ewe lambs from the quints.