purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[purplequeenvt]

No church for me this morning. :/ I had a fever last night and today my ribs/chest really hurt.

Here is the new guy.

And here is poor Squash. She is starting to look not quite as miserable. She glares at me whenever I go near her. She seems to blame me for all that happened.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh no Poor Squash! Is she the one with the deformed baby? I didn't realize, you guys had to do a C-Section? That looks awful and painful. Hope she is feeling better soon.

Hope you feel better soon too!

 

[purplequeenvt]

Yeah, she was in labor for several hours, but not dilating so we called the vet. The vet recommended a c-section. She said that we could give her drugs to induce her and hopefully get the cervix to dilate, but it would take several days to get her to that point. I'm glad we did the c-section because it would have been dreadful to put her through labor only to have a baby she couldn't keep. As it is, she has been so uncomfortable that she hasn't missed the baby at all.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Aw poor thing. I'm really surprised to see that they cut a big slash on her side. Couldn't they just do a small incision on her belly like a human? That recovery has to be awful for her. Hope she gets better soon.

I had twin Tunis x Cormo this morning! Both boys :/ Let me just tell you that when she went into labor, I had my phone and I had your picture tutorial open the whole time to make sure the pictures matched what I was seeing. They did!

 

[purplequeenvt]

That's so funny! I'm glad my pictures could be a help!

I think they do the cut on the side because if they did it underneath on the belly it would be harder to heal. All the weight of her guts would be pressing on the incision. They go in on the left even though the uterus is really on the right because it is easier to get one rumen out of the way instead of a pile of intestines.

I kicked Sara and her girls out of the jug this morning and Rosa the Shetland went in and has claimed it as her own. Maybe that means we'll be seeing babies soon???

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh I can't wait to see Rosa's babies! Cinnamon's udder is huge and she will be going any minute now, too. But not today I don't think. I can't wait to see the my Shetland x Finn cross.

Good luck with Rosa!

 

[Queen Mum]

OUCH! It looks like it hurts!

At least you saved the ewe. That is good news. She might think twice about getting pregnant again after all that. LOL

 

[purplequeenvt]

Yeah, she's not going have babies ever again. We are going to try to find her a home where she can eat grass and look pretty, but never be bred. She's been bred twice and neither time went the way it was supposed to.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Buttercup the Friesian lambed tonight with twins! I was expecting only one from her.

#0021 Bianca

#0022 black boy

And a picture of Ida just because she is so cute.

 

[Queen Mum]

Ida is cute!

How many more ewes are expecting? You have a LOT of kids.