Remuda1-Haps and Mishaps at KB Farms - Poor little Lambies ;)

[Mamaboid]

Thank you Roll, it's nice to have one less lambing to think about. I love the way the paddock looks when all the babies are out in it. I could watch all day

I hear that, all I get done is watch the baby goats play.

 

[RemudaOne]

Really a beautiful day today. I didn't get a lot done since I was up this morning at 3 something and never went back to sleep. But it was so nice outside that I considered mowing the yard. After trimming sheep feet this morning and the tendinitis in my arm, I thought it was best to let that wait. Maybe tomorrow.

The new lamb and mom are still doing very well. This is one of my nicest ewes. She's very good sized and her baby may be the nicest one yet. It's odd how some of them come out with more or less wool. They should all just have hair, but some of the ewes have some wool on them too. Some of the ewes that have quite a bit of wool have had babies with no wool and some of the ewes with no wool have had wooly little babies. The ewe that lambed last night has no wool on her and this baby has no wool either. I had made up my mind that I was going to sell the entire first crop of babies, but this one may change my mind. The plan was originally to sell all the lambs and three of the ewes and look for 3 registered ewes. I may adjust that to keeping this lamb and finding two registered ewes and a registered ram.... We'll see how she grows out.

Birthday celebration with my family tomorrow. Brisket and birthday cake.....Yum, yum . It's a little blurry, but this is my little bottle ram. He's a stinker.

 

[Remuda1]

I've been meaning to update this for some time now, but darn it, life just gets in the way sometimes!! Hubby had a second rotator cuff surgery on his left arm this past Thursday. He's not taking it well..... Tried to go back to work today and (of course) overdid it. Back home now and whiny.

I've been keeping an eye on one of the ewes that I have in the maternity paddock. Had lunch with family yesterday and told my young niece that I thought she would lamb yesterday or this morning. This was the first time my niece had been over since we started lambing.

I think she likes them . I am blessed to have two angels for nieces. Truly good kids. Her older sister starts college this year ( I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that thought). They are both very gifted students and athletes. Love them more than breathing.

Anyhow, I last checked on the ewe at nine last night when I bottle fed the lambs. She was fine and not showing any signs. I woke this morning at 2:30 and wondered if I should go check on her. Decided that she wouldn't go until sometime this morning or today and went back to sleep. I'm so glad I did . I got more sleep and she got to work, lol.

This is what I found this morning. Everyone is doing fine. This makes eleven lambs on the ground and leaves two more ewes to lamb. Also had two lambs lost. This is our third set of twins. Actually four sets but one of the twins was the preemie that didn't survive. these two twins are both rams. I'm not complaining as these two only make the third and fourth rams we've had.

Update on hubby..... The pain meds have kicked in while i typed, he's back to being a sweetheart. More later

 

[RemudaOne]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted here . Oh well, better late than never I s'pose.

Tomorrow, I'll be up at 4:00. A friend of mine and her son are showing dorpers at the Fort Worth Stock Show and I'm going to go give a hand if needed. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the folks that I've met at the sales again and also looking forward to putting some faces with names of some of the people in our Facebook Dorper group. Also looking very much forward to seeing some really nice animals there. Shows are so much more fun when you know folks that are showing

I've got to pull another ewe out of the pasture this weekend. She's bagging up well so time to give CDT. I'll be worming the rest of the current mamas and lambs as well if they look to need it. I think we'll have more lambs within 3-4 weeks. I didn't think she would lamb until March since I saw she and the ram doing the wild thang in October. I was irritated at that time because I felt she should have been bred months prior to. Guess she was, don't know why she was standing for him in October , but glad it worked out the way I wanted it to.

The registered ewes are also started to bag up a little bit. I thought they would be later but this is great since it will let me separate the ram sooner. He and the wether will be taken out of the pasture but of course, now that the time is getting closer, I've started seeing the ram getting a little aggressive with the wether....... I'm just taking ewes out one by one (when they get close to lambing) and once there are only one or two left I will put the ewes and babies in the large pasture and the wether and ram in the small paddock. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the ram with wether thing works out cuz I'm not getting rid of the wether. I figure that the rams time with us is limited anyway, lol. The babies we've already had are growing like weeds and enjoying the cooler weather today.

Weather here has been shocking for this time of year, the high yesterday was 84, day before that 78. It's colder and windier today with a high of 49 with gusty north winds but s'posed to warm back up. Grass is trying to come up in the pastures, but SOOOO hoping my peach tree doesn't bud out till much later on!!! I know a lot of you are suffering through extremely cold and nasty weather and my heart goes out to you

I guess that's about it for now.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Wow Remuda, I didn't even know you HAD a journal! Sounds like you have got your hands full with a bunch of pregnant ewes and lambs. Have fun with your Dorper friends!

I don't know where you live but I want to live there! That weather sounds so great right about now.

 

[bonbean01]

I didn't know you had a journal either!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!

Love all those photos!

 

[Southern by choice]

So glad you started your journal again!
Have a great time tomorrow!

 

[RemudaOne]

Off to the races, hope y'all have a great day

 

[CocoNUT]

Don't forget to report back and tell us how it went!

 

[RemudaOne]

It was a fun morning, friends son took second with his ram so that was spectacular. Lots and lots of awesome sheep there. Freaky now huge some breeds are. One Dorper ewe had lambed and was cleaning up the afterbirth when I happened by. Got to see and visit with some folks that I hadn't see since last September, all in all a good morning. I packed it in early though due to a sinus headache and since I was in Fort Worth, went by to see my mother and father. Came home and took some sinus medicine and I just woke up after a sort snooze........ Sinus meds always knock me out. Hubby just left to go pick up deer meat from the processor and soon it will be time to go out and start feeding critters here.

Sure wish I could have stayed at the show longer. Stupid sinuses.