boothcreek
Loving the herd life
My Mouflon Ewe finally gave birth to a beautiful purebred Mouflon Lamb!! She got into heat so late(usually they birth between march and end of april) I was worried she didn't take or something. She never looked preggers and being the wild thing she is handling is pretty much out.
So i was tickled to see her in pre labour behaviour 2 days ago and then yesterday afternoon she retreated to their night paddock without the herd(which is weird, she cant stand being away from everyone). 9 pm I locked the whole herd up and seen she had started labour. Me standing at the other end of the pen watching didnt sit well with her and she willed her labour to stop...... :/ stood there half an hour and her just staring and not moving a muscle.
So I literally sat like on hot coals watching TV wanting to go out and check(didnt tho otherwise the little bugger will never get born). Broke down before going to bed at midnight and checked and yay she had a bouncing lil healthy lamb!
So this am I went out and took pics when I let them out to graze. Momma went to eat and left the lil one in the paddock to sleep(that worked for all of 1 minute) so I got a chance at a few close up pics without mom and then with mom when she noticed I was skulking around the paddock fence to get some good photos.
Also observations concluded that its a ewe lamb which is doubly awesome !!!
So i was tickled to see her in pre labour behaviour 2 days ago and then yesterday afternoon she retreated to their night paddock without the herd(which is weird, she cant stand being away from everyone). 9 pm I locked the whole herd up and seen she had started labour. Me standing at the other end of the pen watching didnt sit well with her and she willed her labour to stop...... :/ stood there half an hour and her just staring and not moving a muscle.
So I literally sat like on hot coals watching TV wanting to go out and check(didnt tho otherwise the little bugger will never get born). Broke down before going to bed at midnight and checked and yay she had a bouncing lil healthy lamb!
So this am I went out and took pics when I let them out to graze. Momma went to eat and left the lil one in the paddock to sleep(that worked for all of 1 minute) so I got a chance at a few close up pics without mom and then with mom when she noticed I was skulking around the paddock fence to get some good photos.
Also observations concluded that its a ewe lamb which is doubly awesome !!!