Brown Sheep 2014 Lambing-New Pictures

[BrownSheep]

The new lamb from this morning....a ram!

Twins from yesterday

 

[BrownSheep]

so we actually have 26 lambs...I missed someone in the throws of all this.
The new little ram lamb has a "deformed" tail. He actually has extra flaps of skin on either side. This caused him to get plugged up...Kind of like a not so pleasant water balloon. Caught him and got him cleaned up ( the dogs actually did most of the work ) The Betsy's twin ewe from the first of the year has a pretty good limp going on. My dad and I couldn't catch her after 1/2 an hour of trying so I am assuming she just sprained it. I'll give her a good look over if she still wont walk on it next time I am home.


I am kind of out of it so please excuse any mistakes.

 

[bonbean01]

Congrats on all your lambies!!!!

 

[BrownSheep]

Thanks!

We had a boy/girl set of twins born to a first timer, Hoof. Both of them are black with white caps.
We have everybody tagged, castrated, banded, and vaccinated on Tuesday. We also took in six lambs into the butcher. Our 4-hers came and looked at the lambs.

Tuesday killed me...It was a long day. Keep in mind we have no chutes so we have to manually catch every sheep.

 

[PyrOfTheFlock]

I have rambouillet/merino mixes, I was wondering how far down you dock their tails? It probably doesn't matter for mixes but since I have ram lambs that have to go I want them to be as presentable or close to the standard as possible so their new owners will keep them as long as they can. Should I castrate them too? I just want them to have more of a chance of not getting eaten.

 

[BrownSheep]

We use to do just to where the skin on the underside became visible, but we were have issues with it collecting manure. Nothing like fly strike happened but I just didn't like seeing poopy ended sheep. This year we've been doing it up higher and have been very happy with the results.

It's a preference thing. With the fine wool breeds that you have I would suggest going a little higher.