Pee and worms

[Farmercharliesblog]

We have 3 new lambs that were abandoned by their mothers living in our basement. We originally had them in a small kitty pool with baby gates keeping them in it. We had to move them over to a plastic gardening plot. It is larger than the kitty pool but we still had to surround it with baby gates. We already have to be careful in the basement because we have always kept strange animals down there so we have to worry about worms. We prioritize the animals to they don’t get worms but with every animal we have to constantly go to an actual vet to be checked for worms. Sadly the plastic gardening plot leaked pee and we had to bleach our entire basement and get checked for worms again. We have lined 1/2 of our basement with plastic. We can’t do this forever. Please help

 

[Baymule]

Do you have a yard or acreage?
Are you zoned for livestock?

You bring home ram lambs that have little monetary value. You have to face reality. Excess rams are meat. For a flock of 20 ewes you need ONE ram. Say those 20 ewes all have twins, so 40 lambs. Half are ewes, half are rams. A responsible breeder keeps the top ewes, lets say 10 out of the 20 ewe lambs make the cut for breeding stock. Out of the 20 rams, 5 are chosen for breeding stock. That leaves 35 lambs that will be sold for slaughter. Not even a breeder can keep them all.

You need to think on this. You can only have so many pets.

Shelter can be built out of pallets. These are usually free. Metal roofing and you have a shelter for them to get out of the weather.

Here’s a link to my journal, I built a large Pallet Palace. You don’t need one this big. You can also build a pen out of pallets.
You can place the pallets in a “T” formation. Place 2 standing up, 1 across like a T, then 2, then the “T” that makes it more sturdy.

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You can’t keep bringing home bottle babies with no plan on what to do with them. They are an expense to raise. You should consider to either take them to auction or slaughter for the meat for your family to eat.

You put yourself in a crisis because you “save” the babies and you have no plan for what to do with them. Most breeders don’t want bottle babies because the milk to raise them costs more than they are worth.

I’ll fight the ewe, tie her up for weeks if necessary (I untie her at night) . I had a bottle baby this lambing. Ewe absolutely would not feed him. I kept them penned 3 weeks. She finally wouldn’t let her milk down and she crumpled up and laid down. She won. I had a bottle baby. He’s scruffy, narrow shoulders, pot belly, a terrible specimen of the breed. I probably couldn’t get $50 for him at auction. I’ll keep him to be a companion to weaned lambs. I spent way more than that to raise him.

Your Mom has to be a wonderful woman. Pee, poop and stink in the basement! Not many moms would put up with that. Go give her a hug and tell her you love her.

 

[Farmercharliesblog]

We have the space and everything but today is a high of -20 degrees F. They live in our basement because they are so small. They definitely have worms. We are treating them now.

 

[Baymule]

Can you build a shelter for them and run an extension cord for a heat lamp?