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purplequeenvt
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13 lambs and 2 kids born in the past 3 days. My little sister have been going pretty much non-stop since 6 am on Wednesday. So tired. ![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
Not everything has gone smoothly, but so far we haven't lost any lambs besides Beryllium.
Summing up the week.....
Valerie started us off on Wednesday morning with twin boys (pictures up there ^ somewhere). She's been an excellent first time mother and is taking great care of her boys.
Maud surprised us with her black ewe lamb Wednesday afternoon (also shown above). She is also a first time mom and has been wonderful with her baby.
Hetty, the goat, had her girl and boy shortly after Maud had her girl (also shown above). We took her babies away right off as we are going to be milking her. She's been great at the whole milking thing and her babies are thriving.
Thursday afternoon Jazmin had two gorgeous black lambs, a boy and a girl. They are purebred Border Leicester, but are not registered, unfortunately. That is a huge bummer as the ram is perfect. Jazmin had no milk and paid absolutely no attention to her babies. They moved inside with the goat kids and the orphan lamb, Esmeralda.
Oxygen and Fluorine
Penny lambed Thursday evening with twin girls, one white and one black. We've had some trouble with her, she didn't like her black (she had one white lamb last year). She wasn't being aggressive towards it, but she wouldn't let her nurse. We've gotten that problem fixed, but now she seems to be low on milk so we are supplementing the babies.
Neon and Sodium (AKA Anchovy)
10 pm Friday evening, our old lady Galadriel popped out a 14 lb white ewe lamb. Galadriel is an old pro and got her baby up and going right away.
This morning is when the real craziness began. I went out to check everyone around midnight and found Rebecca, our ewe that keeps prolapsing, was in labor. Thankfully we got the baby out alive and her uterus stayed where it was supposed to. We left them in peace to do their bonding thing. We went back out 30 minutes later to check on them. Rebecca was being dumb and not her nurse, so we left them together for another 45 minutes to let them figure things out. When we checked again, Rebecca was laying on her lamb. Another 5 or 10 minutes and she would have been dead. At this point Rebecca was smashing her lamb into the wall and was trying to kill her so we pulled the lamb. Rebecca has made the Sausage List. Prolapsing and then rejecting her lamb....bad sheep!
My sis and I continued our hourly barn checks because we had several ewes really close to lambing and lambs that needed close attention and we are in the middle of another brutally cold spell.
8:30 this morning Hera had twins. A white boy and a black girl. They are doing ok, but mom is having udder trouble - wondering if maybe she had an injury last year that went unnoticed.
Those babies are getting supplemented too.
Right as I was getting Hera settled and was milking Rebecca (if she's not going to care for her baby, the least she can do is give some milk to help out), Steve decided it was the right moment to pop out twin girls. She was the picture perfect mother and all in that family are doing well.
We are half way through lambing and have another couple ewes in the first group to go. Then we have a small break and the next wave goes. Hopefully not as problematically as the first group.
My sister and I are hoping to get a good nights sleep tonight after all the insanity of the last few days. The bottle baby count is up to 4 lambs and 2 kids.
Not everything has gone smoothly, but so far we haven't lost any lambs besides Beryllium.Summing up the week.....
Valerie started us off on Wednesday morning with twin boys (pictures up there ^ somewhere). She's been an excellent first time mother and is taking great care of her boys.
Maud surprised us with her black ewe lamb Wednesday afternoon (also shown above). She is also a first time mom and has been wonderful with her baby.
Hetty, the goat, had her girl and boy shortly after Maud had her girl (also shown above). We took her babies away right off as we are going to be milking her. She's been great at the whole milking thing and her babies are thriving.
Thursday afternoon Jazmin had two gorgeous black lambs, a boy and a girl. They are purebred Border Leicester, but are not registered, unfortunately. That is a huge bummer as the ram is perfect. Jazmin had no milk and paid absolutely no attention to her babies. They moved inside with the goat kids and the orphan lamb, Esmeralda.
Oxygen and Fluorine
Penny lambed Thursday evening with twin girls, one white and one black. We've had some trouble with her, she didn't like her black (she had one white lamb last year). She wasn't being aggressive towards it, but she wouldn't let her nurse. We've gotten that problem fixed, but now she seems to be low on milk so we are supplementing the babies.
Neon and Sodium (AKA Anchovy)
10 pm Friday evening, our old lady Galadriel popped out a 14 lb white ewe lamb. Galadriel is an old pro and got her baby up and going right away.
This morning is when the real craziness began. I went out to check everyone around midnight and found Rebecca, our ewe that keeps prolapsing, was in labor. Thankfully we got the baby out alive and her uterus stayed where it was supposed to. We left them in peace to do their bonding thing. We went back out 30 minutes later to check on them. Rebecca was being dumb and not her nurse, so we left them together for another 45 minutes to let them figure things out. When we checked again, Rebecca was laying on her lamb. Another 5 or 10 minutes and she would have been dead. At this point Rebecca was smashing her lamb into the wall and was trying to kill her so we pulled the lamb. Rebecca has made the Sausage List. Prolapsing and then rejecting her lamb....bad sheep!
My sis and I continued our hourly barn checks because we had several ewes really close to lambing and lambs that needed close attention and we are in the middle of another brutally cold spell.
8:30 this morning Hera had twins. A white boy and a black girl. They are doing ok, but mom is having udder trouble - wondering if maybe she had an injury last year that went unnoticed.
Those babies are getting supplemented too.Right as I was getting Hera settled and was milking Rebecca (if she's not going to care for her baby, the least she can do is give some milk to help out), Steve decided it was the right moment to pop out twin girls. She was the picture perfect mother and all in that family are doing well.
We are half way through lambing and have another couple ewes in the first group to go. Then we have a small break and the next wave goes. Hopefully not as problematically as the first group.
My sister and I are hoping to get a good nights sleep tonight after all the insanity of the last few days. The bottle baby count is up to 4 lambs and 2 kids.
