patandchickens
Overrun with beasties
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What do you think?
This is Hope, 15 months old, first freshener obviously, Dorset X British Milksheep, today is day 149 since the ram marked her. The pink mark on the mid-back of the udder is where I slightly buttonholed her when crutching the other week, oops.
This is her sister Peace, same age and breed, today is day 142 since the ram marked her. She is my little Peacie-pie friend so unlike Hope she was willing to stand still for a close up of her hoo-ha, the second pic.
Those are the two I mainly care about. But since I am posting pics, here is also as good a shot I can get of the weird little shetland ewe, 3 yrs old and has lambed before, but I never saw any mark on her nor saw her in heat so if she was bred at all I could not tell you when it would have been, presumably later than Hope or Peace were (ram was only removed a couple weeks ago). Could not get hoo-ha pic but it seems substantially less puffy/saggy than the other two's.
And while I'm at it, here is where they are living right now, it is their summer night-yard and winter full-time quarters, about 30x80' (half of which is behind me and thus out of pic). Well actually in winter they have access to the adjacent ram paddock too, not shown.
So am I just imagining that they are pregnant?? I am getting rather frustrating checking all the time for nonexistant lambs. Am beginning to suspect that either they are not pregnant, or that sheep do not actually produce lambs at all, lambs are manufactured in a factory in Taiwan, shipped flat-packed to North America and inflated by the end user.
Thanks for any opinions,
Pat
This is Hope, 15 months old, first freshener obviously, Dorset X British Milksheep, today is day 149 since the ram marked her. The pink mark on the mid-back of the udder is where I slightly buttonholed her when crutching the other week, oops.
This is her sister Peace, same age and breed, today is day 142 since the ram marked her. She is my little Peacie-pie friend so unlike Hope she was willing to stand still for a close up of her hoo-ha, the second pic.
Those are the two I mainly care about. But since I am posting pics, here is also as good a shot I can get of the weird little shetland ewe, 3 yrs old and has lambed before, but I never saw any mark on her nor saw her in heat so if she was bred at all I could not tell you when it would have been, presumably later than Hope or Peace were (ram was only removed a couple weeks ago). Could not get hoo-ha pic but it seems substantially less puffy/saggy than the other two's.
And while I'm at it, here is where they are living right now, it is their summer night-yard and winter full-time quarters, about 30x80' (half of which is behind me and thus out of pic). Well actually in winter they have access to the adjacent ram paddock too, not shown.
So am I just imagining that they are pregnant?? I am getting rather frustrating checking all the time for nonexistant lambs. Am beginning to suspect that either they are not pregnant, or that sheep do not actually produce lambs at all, lambs are manufactured in a factory in Taiwan, shipped flat-packed to North America and inflated by the end user.
Thanks for any opinions,
Pat