Help me determine is my sheep have started “showing” in their pregnancies

[SageHill]

So sorry. These things happen sometimes no matter how hard you try to keep it all going the right direction.
Hugs

 

[Baymule]

I pen my ewes every night. It just makes me feel better.

Sorry about the baby. There will be losses. It hurts, you second guess yourself and sometimes you grieve and cry. But the other side of loss, is the joys you experience, watching lamb races, ewes running to you because you accessorized your runway farm outfit with a feed bucket. As sad as the losses are, the glad parts are better and there’s more of them.

 

[MMGardens]

Thank you all for your kind words


That mama also is struggling with mastitis too on the left side of her udder of course. Vet gave me some injectable anti inflammatory meds and antibiotics just in case and she seems to be doing better

Waiting on my last pregnant ewe now, don’t know what she’s waiting on but I do wish she would hurry up we could use some more lamb joy around here

She’s looking like a beached whale

 

[Baymule]

I know your ewe is getting the best care you can give. Hang in there, she will get better.

Yep, beached whale is right. When those lambs are born, give them a hug from their Aunt Baymule.

 

[MMGardens]

I know your ewe is getting the best care you can give. Hang in there, she will get better.

Yep, beached whale is right. When those lambs are born, give them a hug from their Aunt Baymule.

Thank you Will do!!



She had a big udder change today and her girly parts are very pink today, but around her tail head isn’t squishy yet

Maybe we are getting somewhere

 

[Mini Horses]

Is the ewe with poss mastitis milkable? Emptying the udder helps. Yes, she'll make more but no/ little nursing will stop that process.

 

[MMGardens]

Is the ewe with poss mastitis milkable? Emptying the udder helps. Yes, she'll make more but no/ little nursing will stop that process.

Initially, I decided against it because she’s really flighty and fights like wild when we try to catch her and she jumps fences. When I noticed her kinda limping and acting funny a day or so after lambing I caught her and tried to milk her and one side was just fine and the other was already starting to get really hard and backed up, so then I kept trying to milk her to fix that, but really almost nothing will come out of that side because it seems clogged. The anti inflammatories are helping, it’s still hard and clumpy, but shrinking in total size and the other side is still nice and soft and not getting engorged and I don’t have to milk it anymore



Off topic, is there a lamb weight gain chart or reference you guys are familiar with?

Trying to make sure my lamb is growing well

Born at 8 lb 7 oz
1 week 12 lb 6 oz
2 weeks 18 lb 7 oz

She’s been acting like she’s eating alfalfa hay and taking bites of everything, but I thought she probably wasn’t really swallowing it, but today twice she burped up and chewed a tiny cud. It was adorable