purplequeenvt - Lambs 2017
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Baymule
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What a disappointment. Really sorry about the loss of the lambs. Crossing fingers for you! 
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purplequeenvt
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Some good news and some bad.
Bad first. Quinn, a first time ewe, prolapsed yesterday (2/7) morning. I found her at 4am when I ran out to check them before leaving for work. I put her back together and threw a couple stitches in and made it to work only 45 minutes late.
By 7am, she'd managed to prolapse again through the stitches. I had to call a neighbor to fix her up since I wasn't able to leave work.
She stayed together until around 1:30pm. I got home at 2 pushed everything back in a threw in another couple stitches.
We decided last night that trying to keep her together until she lambed was too risky. There was no way she'd be able to lamb without assistance and we had no way of knowing just how close she was to lambing. We gave her drugs to induce labor last night in the hopes that she'd go into labor and dilate either during the night or sometime today (my day off).
She was in labor by 5am and I was able to get both babies out. They were full term, but stillborn. The ewe is stitched back up (hopefully, I need to go back out and check shortly) and will hopefully recover from this trauma.
Now the good......
In the midst of the above chaos, we had our first set of LIVE lambs this spring!
Maud had a 12 lb white girl and, when I checked, I couldn't find a 2nd despite going almost up to my elbow. 45 minutes later, #2, a 13 lb black ram, arrived. I still have no clue where he was hiding! I've never missed a lamb before. He was nice surprise though. This ewe broke all her traditions though. She's lambed 3 times before this and each time she's had a single black ewe lamb. This time twins and the ewe was white.
They are both gorgeous and I'll post pictures later.
Bad first. Quinn, a first time ewe, prolapsed yesterday (2/7) morning. I found her at 4am when I ran out to check them before leaving for work. I put her back together and threw a couple stitches in and made it to work only 45 minutes late.
By 7am, she'd managed to prolapse again through the stitches. I had to call a neighbor to fix her up since I wasn't able to leave work.
She stayed together until around 1:30pm. I got home at 2 pushed everything back in a threw in another couple stitches.
We decided last night that trying to keep her together until she lambed was too risky. There was no way she'd be able to lamb without assistance and we had no way of knowing just how close she was to lambing. We gave her drugs to induce labor last night in the hopes that she'd go into labor and dilate either during the night or sometime today (my day off).
She was in labor by 5am and I was able to get both babies out. They were full term, but stillborn. The ewe is stitched back up (hopefully, I need to go back out and check shortly) and will hopefully recover from this trauma.
Now the good......
In the midst of the above chaos, we had our first set of LIVE lambs this spring!
Maud had a 12 lb white girl and, when I checked, I couldn't find a 2nd despite going almost up to my elbow. 45 minutes later, #2, a 13 lb black ram, arrived. I still have no clue where he was hiding! I've never missed a lamb before. He was nice surprise though. This ewe broke all her traditions though. She's lambed 3 times before this and each time she's had a single black ewe lamb. This time twins and the ewe was white.
They are both gorgeous and I'll post pictures later.
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So sorry you've had such a rough go of it lately - but congrats on the new arrivals!
Baymule
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When a ewe prolapses, does that mean that she will continue to do so? I am sorry that you have had such problems this year, it all seems to hit at once. You needed some good news, the twins sound wonderful, can't wait for pictures.
Mike CHS
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So sorry but it is always great to get some good news in spite of the bad.
norseofcourse
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Congrats on the twins! Surprising a lamb that big could hide so well. Sorry about the loss of the others 
That must be one very big ewe to hold a lamb in so deep you couldn't get to/find it... Sorry about the prolaps(es) and lost lambs... Not a good start to your season, but I hope there are no more losses. Hope she recovers and can lamb again in the future.
Hens and Roos
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Congrats on the lambs and sorry for your losses
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purplequeenvt
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Tungsten (ewe)
Rhenium (ram)
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