SageHill Ranch Journal

[SageHill]

California is beautiful, has great weather, and all the crazy liberals flock to it. Governor Gruesome is worried about tax income loss for the state now. Apparently, those illegals he welcomes into the state do not pay taxes so do not contribute to the state's income. People with any income are leaving the state. After all, why pay exorbitant taxes to live in a state where you can't get police protection from crime, can't protect yourself from criminals, can't get enough water, can't get enough electricity to charge the electric cars you are forced into buying, and anything you can get you are paying more and more $$$ to obtain.

I love living on top of our hill - the views, the privacy, etc., but once you leave the safety of your place you have to watch your back.

However, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope everyone has a wonderful year full of happiness and health. Until Biden and his Bidenomics are gone we won't have any prosperity, but at least we can be healthy and happy and enjoy our friends and our own personal pieces of heaven.

So very true.

 

[Mini Horses]

You had a doe prolapse?

 

[SageHill]

You had a doe prolapse?

I've got one ewe - a first timer that is prolapsing. No lamb(s) from her yet. Hope to get something and that things work out with it. Already thinking that once weaned ( she delivers and lamb and her make it) the ewe will see a trip to the auction.

 

[Baymule]

I’ve had one ewe prolapse. I had just completed moving to my son’s house. The last load was my tractor and implements and a neighbor loaded and strapped it all down for me. I was so sick and weak it was all I could do to drive truck and trailer to son’s house. I collapsed with Round #2 of Covid.

A registered ewe, FF, and with twins, prolapsed. No vet would come because i wasn’t already a client. Hitching the trailer and loading her wasn’t an option, I was done. I called @Ridgetop. She described how to catch her ( no chute, would have to be chase and flying tackle) tie her up, (wild idiot) and sew her vulva (never done that before). The more she talked, the more I could see what I had to do.

I called a friend. He and his brother came over, shot her and took her home for meat.

It was a perfect storm of everything going wrong all at the same time. Farming ain’t for sissies. Sometimes things just suck. That was one of them.

I sincerely hope you can pull this ewe through and that she has healthy lambs. If you get lambs, call it a Win.

 

[SageHill]

WOAH - you had the worst of the worst. <hugs> yeah I know it was awhile ago - but hugs none the less.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed, my mind calm, and adding in a few prayers to St Francis to stand by me. Time will tell and I'll be armed and ready. Hoping for lamb(s) and a good outcome for at least a couple months. Not something I want to do, but it's a fact of life. And of course something that I'll learn.

 

[peteyfoozer]

I was always so lucky none of mine prolapsed. My harness is still in its package.
I’ve stuffed them back inside cows, when working at the feedlot, but the only probs I ever had with my sheeple was missing a triplet. Madge had twin trouble and I thought all was well. I didn’t feel anything else and thought she was in the clear. I am still sick thinking of what she went through at the end, while I slept. She was Bru’s pet (She always hung out alone and sounded like Bea Arthur when she spoke) I lost her after she faithfully provided for me for years.

These critters sure can get under your skin. The best and worst part of raising livestock.

Sure hope everything smooths out for you and she pushes out a lamb or two instead, or at worst, as well as.

 

[SageHill]

Update this morning - no new lambs, Ms Prolapse is still just acting normal (harness gets delivered today though probably 5pm ish at best - but better than not). Black Cap is still acting normal - but has a bit of a bag. Silver and her lamb are good but I still need to hold Silver still, but with a lighter touch than yesterday.
While online shopping for panels I came across Grafting Boxes designed to hold mamas so lambs/kids can nurse. Interesting. No not getting one, not even thinking, but it was a "new to me".

 

[Mini Horses]

Like you, now -- I'm the grafting help

 

[Baymule]

I think you are doing fabulous. You cobwebbed that ewe with vet wrap. Priceless! Only thing better you could have used was crime scene tape.

 

[SageHill]

I think you are doing fabulous. You cobwebbed that ewe with vet wrap. Priceless! Only thing better you could have used was crime scene tape.

Ah @Baymule love it!