Heather
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How exciting!! We have light in our jug as well(its a heat lamp when needed) but my wonderful husband got me a headlight that I throw on if I go back at night. I'm a big baby at night. Good luck!
Lambing/Breeding 2014-Parsnip
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bonbean01
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Parsnip
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MaryEllen is taking her sweet time 
She'll lay down for a while, and kind of push, then she'll start ruminating.
Then she'll stand and make a nest and then lay down again.
This has been going on for like the past hour and a half.
I am up at the house now because I needed to pee and I'm hungry.
Nothing major looked like it was going to happen.
She's pushing, but they are NOT huge pushes and they happen every 3-7 minutes or so.
So I'm thinking she has a bit more to go before the fun starts....
I'll keep you guys posted
She'll lay down for a while, and kind of push, then she'll start ruminating.
Then she'll stand and make a nest and then lay down again.
This has been going on for like the past hour and a half.
I am up at the house now because I needed to pee and I'm hungry.
Nothing major looked like it was going to happen.
She's pushing, but they are NOT huge pushes and they happen every 3-7 minutes or so.
So I'm thinking she has a bit more to go before the fun starts....
I'll keep you guys posted
Womwotai
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Keep us posted Parsnip! I might be right there with you as I have a ewe I also think may be in the early stages of labor. She was out grazing with the others but came up by herself and stood looking at me through the gate. As I stood watching her, I could see the little one moving around inside her - even from a distance. Eventually the others all came up but when they left again to go and graze, this one stayed up by herself. She watched them but didn't call and seemed happy to be by herself. So I prepared an area for her to be by herself, adjacent to the nursery where my first ewe and Snowball spend the nights, and watched her a little longer. Her vulva is definitely puffier and redder even than this morning. I couldn't get close enough to see her udder but it was already filling even a few days ago. Since she's been by herself she has been alternately pacing and lying down chewing her cud - nothing really unusual except that she is very calm and normally if she were separated from the rest that would not be the case.
It sounds like MaryEllen may be further along, but I think sometime in the next 24 hours we might both have new little lambs
It sounds like MaryEllen may be further along, but I think sometime in the next 24 hours we might both have new little lambs
bonbean01
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Can't wait...oh...I am such a lambie addict it isn't even funny!- Thread starter
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Parsnip
Loving the herd life
She had a little boy!!!
He's 7lbs 2 oz and looks like a boer goat lol
He's the brown head, and white body, but he does have a white star and brown spots on his legs.
WHAT A CUTIE.
I really want to keep him a ram! So I'm gonna ask around to see if anyone wants him
When he's older of course.
Otherwise he's gonna be food!
But he's such a fun color! Plus he's half dorper So he's gonna be big!!!
PICTURES LATER
He's 7lbs 2 oz and looks like a boer goat lol
He's the brown head, and white body, but he does have a white star and brown spots on his legs.
WHAT A CUTIE.
I really want to keep him a ram! So I'm gonna ask around to see if anyone wants him
When he's older of course.
Otherwise he's gonna be food!
But he's such a fun color! Plus he's half dorper
So he's gonna be big!!!PICTURES LATER
bonbean01
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Congrats!!!! Can't wait for pics!!!!!
alsea1
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Give me a call if you need help with anything.
Hope it goes well for her first time. I'm sure it will.
Hope it goes well for her first time. I'm sure it will.
alsea1
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