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Lambing/Breeding 2014-Parsnip
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My ewe's always look fat so I wasn't sure they were pregnant. I came home to a baby lamb!! That answered that question ( :
My concern now is this is the first baby for my ewe and the lamb doesn't seem to want to nurse yet. Should I be concerned?
My concern now is this is the first baby for my ewe and the lamb doesn't seem to want to nurse yet. Should I be concerned?
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Yes the baby could starve
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mysunwolf
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Parsnip, who is that and how many ewes do you have left to lamb?
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I really don't have any ewes left to lamb, scheduled to lamb at least! Kind of a 'guess and go' right now.
Diana is the one in the picture. She was with a ram for 5 days back in Dec.
And then with a ram again for all of March. I want to say she was bred back in Dec. to the small Blackbelly ram.
But I don't know lol. It'd be her first lambing, and the sire is a small breed, so it's possible?
Then I have another ewe that was with a ram last month, right now she's "scheduled" to lamb in late August.
They all find a way to drive me up the wall backwards.
bonbean01
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Dixie did not look wide at all, not as wide as your pic Parsnip. Her girl parts were puffy yesterday and pink, but not that angry red and swollen, so thought my guess on timing was right....WRONG!!!! Her udder has been growing slowly for a few weeks now and then I did notice yesterday morning that it had swelled more and teats sticking out at right angles. But she didn't look very big...and no sunk in look like baby had dropped at all. Here's a pic I took of her the day before she lambed and she does not look big at all.
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WHOA must have been a REAL surprise then!
Congrats on the cute ewe lamb though!
Diana has no udder still, but then again, she would be about a month and a week away from her estimated lambing date.
bonbean01
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Yup...I was kind of in shock...taking the dogs out late in the dark for their night time potty...and hear a newborn lamb baaaaing ...then hear that mama ewe murmuring sound and then see four tiny legs under Dixie!!! That baby looked so tiny, but I weighed her yesterday and she is 7 pounds...had thought she'd weigh much less! I'm enjoying this last little baby lamb so much!!!!
