purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[Bridgemoof]

I had to swing by and look at her again! She is just gorgeous. And you know, your photos taken in the barn are just great! They look like they were taken in a photo studio.

 

[Queen Mum]

What a lovely girl! I want her! Please, pretty please!

 

[alsea1]

Those are big lambs. Is this typical

 

[Meat Goats]

That's huge. My Alana averages 9.5 pounds a kid and has only had triplets and I thought that was crazy. I keep seeing all these people having (well not the people but the sheep ) having these single and twins at like 16-18 pounds. That's crazy!

 

[greenbean]

She's beautiful! and big!

 

[purplequeenvt]

I had to swing by and look at her again! She is just gorgeous. And you know, your photos taken in the barn are just great! They look like they were taken in a photo studio.

Thanks!

 

[purplequeenvt]

What a lovely girl! I want her! Please, pretty please!

Sorry, I think my sister would murder me if I sent her to you.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Those are big lambs. Is this typical

I don't really know what is typical. It depends on the breed usually. I think that we are having unusually large lambs this year. I know that it 2011 our average lamb weight was 12 lbs and in 2012 it was 10.25 lbs. Our biggest lamb last year was 18 lbs.

 

[purplequeenvt]

That's huge. My Alana averages 9.5 pounds a kid and has only had triplets and I thought that was crazy. I keep seeing all these people having (well not the people but the sheep ) having these single and twins at like 16-18 pounds. That's crazy!

We had 2 sets of triplets last year where the lambs each weighed 9-10 lbs. I feel bad for the mothers! 30 lbs of baby is a lot!

 

[purplequeenvt]

Rotten end to a day that started out almost as badly. We lost both Nelly, the prolapsing ewe, and her baby. She was in labor at 12:30 am when I checked on her and I started helping her an hour later. By 4:30 it was obvious that the lamb was dead and it was not going to come out either. It had it's head turned back and upside down and hard as I tried, I could not get it around. I'm positive that the lamb was dead long before I started working on her. I couldn't put Nelly through the labor any more so Lyd went and got our dad and he put her down. I did a quick necropsy on her to see what was going on. The lamb was a 14.5 lb black ram.

To say that I'm upset is putting it a bit mildly. Nelly and I had an odd, but special friendship. She was one of those animals that you just really want to dislike (obnoxious, poor quality, etc..), but then she would come over to you and look up at you with the most trusting expression. She trusted me all the way to the end.