BrownSheeps 2013 Lambing thread...6 new babies

[Four Winds Ranch]

Sorry about the lost lambs!
Good luck with the ones on the way!!!!
It definatly gets stressfull when the lambing season stretches on and on!!! Thats how mine was last year!
Pics soon as you can!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bonbean01]

X 2!!!!!

 

[BrownSheep]

So, there was actually two sets of triplets Thursday. We didn't find the other one till today,in the corner covered in dirt. It was black and still born anyway.They got about an 1/2 inch of rain on Thursday....which is an absolute down pour for us. So between that and the wind it caused a lot of problems.
Odd to think we didn't loose ny body when it was ten below but add rain and we lost three.
Happy News now!!!

Beazus had a BLACK ram lamb....this means little black ramthat passd in November did get a little action before he went!

We might leave this guy intact so we have a black ram for our white ewes....we have enough ewes he's either a) not related to or b) distantly related to for this to be an option.

 

[BrownSheep]

So...I've been really bad about posting pictures . In my defense the only pictures I have are cruddy cell phone ones.

As of right now our count is 18 live lambs 3 dead
Of the live lambs we have 10 rams and 8 ewes. I am not impressed with Eli's ram to ewe ratio...on the upside I am getting pretty good at castration and that's a useful skill to have.

Most likely all the ewes will be kept. The littlest black ram lamb will be kept back as well.

We do have some kids that want some fair lambs. They got excited when we had a black wether for sale so he'll go. We want to sell our bottle baby weathers as fair lambs so they can get loved on...and so we don't have to deal with that heart break.

I am pretty certain Max's triplets were premature because at two weeks old the two surviving ones look like newborns and the smallest one weighs less than most newborns we have had. But, they are peppy and vigorous. Over all they are doing well and are thriving. I've named them Itty and Bitty

Four more ewes to go and then we are done!
Three should go any time they are HUGE. The fourth one is just now starting an udder so I'm putting her mid to late May.

We put the rams in in August....and we are STILL going

 

[BrownSheep]

We lost a ewe lamb today. Somebody lambed today while everyone was away. Of course they didn't get home till late and don't know who it belonged to yet.

Apparently, it was HUGE. Dad thought it was one of the 7 week old bottle babies and it was very heavy.

I am just happy they didn't loose the ewe. It was probably a hard delivery.

 

[BrownSheep]

The ewe lamb was from Olive who is a first year.

A bummer but I do have a lot of ewes from this line as it is.