purplequeenvt's 2014 Lambing Thread

[purplequeenvt]

Unfortunately we lost Beryllium yesterday. She was having trouble since day one and we did the best we could to treat her, but she passed away in my little sister's arms at 1 am. I did a necropsy on her and she appeared to have infection in her intestines. Her sister is doing well and growing nicely.

No one else has lambed yet, but there are a couple that are getting quite close.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Like mother, like daughter! Galadriel, 9 yo (on left), and her daughter Lucie, 6 yo (right).

 

[purplequeenvt]

New baby girl! Purebred Border Leicester. She was born to a young first time mother who has no milk. It was a hard, traumatic birth and the mom has no interest in baby so I guess we have a bottle lamb. Not ideal, but at least it's a girl. She's very lively and smart and took to the bottle right away.

 

[Ruus]

Such a sweet face!

 

[purplequeenvt]

We lost the little girl's mother to prolapse yesterday, so baby is truly an orphan.

 

[purplequeenvt]

In better news, we had two healthy boys born this morning. They are Shetland/Friesian/Dorper/Border Leicester crosses. 7 and 7.5 lbs, born to a great first time mom.

 

[Queen Mum]

What lovely babies. I had no idea that lambs are so small.

 

[purplequeenvt]

It all depends on the breed. Our average lambs weight last year was about 12 lbs. This year the weights are less, but we are having more multiple births than last year.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I think our only goat may kid today.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Surprise! In the 30 minutes between when we went inside after feeding and came back out to check the goat....Maud (1st time Border Leicester) had a black girl. She has some very interesting markings on her.
#1407 Nitrogen or "Nitra" - 8.5 lbs

Shortly after Nitra was born, the goat gave birth! We got two kids - one girl, one boy. They are mainly Alpine with just a touch of Nubian.
#1 Girl

#2 Boy