Misfitmorgan's - Babies 2020

[Mike CHS]

Don't beat yourself up. Sorry they didn't make it.

 

[Bruce]

Hopefully with them being inside in the near future things will be better.

 

[Baymule]

Sorry about the twin lambs. I know you felt bad for them and you are probably blaming yourself. Like Mike said, don't beat yourself up over it. Things happen. Next year you will be getter prepared and you won't be lambing at minus nice degrees.

 

[Sheepshape]

Unfortunately, s@*t happens, and happens every year with lambing. Try not to be too hard on yourselves.....Mother Nature can be a cruel mistress. She feels she has to remind us on a regular basis that she is the one who holds the 'Ace Hand'.

Rejoice in the successes, try to learn from the 'not so successful', and remember that the journey anything makes at birth is the most dangerous journey it will ever make, so things are bound to go wrong at times.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Thank you everyone. I definitely hope we are better prepared next year because I can't handle so many loses and it really makes me feel like we should just sell everything and start over after all the fencing/buildings/stalls are built. Then i look at my livestock and I love them, i don't think i could part with my girls. Even one of the mutt sheep is now very friendly and comes up to get petted.

@misfitmorgan aw I'm sorry to hear you lost some little ones! So sad! How many more mutts do you have left to drop lambs?

We have 4 more mutt sheep to lamb and 3 more suffolk and a poly pay and a suffolk poly pay cross. So 8 more sheep to lamb and 1 to 3 more goats. Still not sure if Latte and Espresso got bred if they did they should kid very late like April or June.

 

[misfitmorgan]

This is Charlotte, pics are from yesterday.

Ivy and Charlotte...Charlotte had her little nose all wrinkled up and was bouncing off the walls of course.

This is the new ram lamb, he is so big!

This is 310, the ram's mom...and her "why are you disturbing me when you just gave me grain" look

Yes i did move that heat lamp

 

[RollingAcres]

Charlotte is very cute and so is your new ram lamb!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Our Calving season has sucked! We’ve lost two calves. Our third survivor was born tonight. Losing half isn’t just hard on emotions but on the pocket book too. I totally get it! Praying it gets better here and there!

 

[misfitmorgan]

I let the dog out this morning and when I was calling him back in I happen to hear a lamb cry, it was loud and sounded in distress.

The polypay had her lamb, a single (we think ram, we were in a hurry) but he was going downhill fast. We think we found him within about 15 mins of being born. It was 8f again today and I think if it had been much longer he wouldnt have made it. We moved them both to the barn and kicked Charlotte and Ivy out of the hot box and stuck the polypay and new lamb in it.

Problem is now I am very worried about Charlotte but wasn't much else we could do because we had to go to work. Hope all is well when we get home after work

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Charlotte should be old enough to be out of the hotbox. I’ll cross my fingers with you!