SheepGirl's 2012 Lambing Thread

[aggieterpkatie]

Oops, sorry, I spelled Ciqala's name wrong! Oh, so there's no chance Ali had the last 2 lambs. Can't wait to see if she's bred or not!

 

[SheepGirl]

Here is a picture of Lady Gaga's wound from yesterday (sorry for the weird angle, I had to hold up her back legs to get the picture so she wouldn't move.

(I will add more pictures later, but my neighbor has someone picking up his sheep today and I have to go down now to separate out mine from his.)

 

[BrownSheep]

She looks MUCH better!

 

[SheepGirl]

Yep, her butt is nicely scabbed over completely now and the swelling is pretty much nonexistent AND she can wiggle her tail now when she nurses

Here are some sheared sheep pictures...

You can see her udder and how much her teats are filled. I've been trying to milk her out a bit (I even took a sip of it and it tasted like 2% milk lol) but she does NOT like her udder touched at all. The ewe on the right is Ali and the lamb whose face you can see is Katy Perry. The lamb whose face you can't see is Lady Gaga. I can tell them a part because Katy Perry has tan/brown markings on her legs and Lady Gaga has black/gray markings on her legs.

Here's Ali and Lady Gaga

LOOK at these legs on this purebred Babydoll ram! I'm so jealous...haha. He was sold today so he should make his new owners (a very nice older couple, I might add) some nice meaty babies

Here's my ram and his legs

My sheep are soo fat. I can't wait to get them up to my house in the next couple of days to get them on a very limited diet of just grass hay, since they will be drylotted under our deck until we put up the fence and build their barn.

Speaking of moving them up to our house...their pens are almost ready. We have the T-posts set up so tomorrow after graduation practice I will be putting up the fencing. I may need to stop and get zip ties/railroad ties to attach the fencing to the posts because I kind of took of some of the pegs on the T post when I was pounding them in with the T post pounder

 

[Southdown]

It's good that she is scabbing over. Oh my goodness, I've never seen the teats so filled with milk like that! Are the lambs not emptying her enough?

 

[aggieterpkatie]

The sheep look great. Is it hard for your neighbor to sell his sheep? The lambs are looking good too, and holy cow, poor Ciqala's udder! I'd definitely tie her up and milk her out. Her teats are too engorged, and it's no wonder she doesn't like them touched! I think if you milk her out maybe her lambs would nurse a bit more.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Oh, and Lady Gaga's hiney looks much better too!

 

[SheepGirl]

It's good that she is scabbing over. Oh my goodness, I've never seen the teats so filled with milk like that! Are the lambs not emptying her enough?

The lambs have actually stopped nursing off of her and started to nurse off of Ali...who is now producing milk. So I'm waiting to see if she has any babies in her or if she's a magic sheep.

The sheep look great. Is it hard for your neighbor to sell his sheep? The lambs are looking good too, and holy cow, poor Ciqala's udder! I'd definitely tie her up and milk her out. Her teats are too engorged, and it's no wonder she doesn't like them touched! I think if you milk her out maybe her lambs would nurse a bit more.

Oh, and Lady Gaga's hiney looks much better too!

Thanks Normally he just sells his lambs and culls to auction, but his friend was looking for some sheep so he bought my neighbor's three ewes and ram.

I've been trying to get her milked out...it is such a comedy show for anybody watching. I have her wedged between a gate and the barn wall and I have to push up on her butt to keep her from backing out and while milking her I have to hold onto the gate since it can't latch to the wall...and she is smart enough to push her nose up against the gate and turn around. So I've outsmarted her and I put a halter on her so if she decides to do that, she can't run away The lambs do try to nurse off of her after I milk her out because her teats are small enough, but since I milk her out there's very little milk left and so they lose interest and go back over to Ali.

 

[SheepGirl]

Sheep are coming to my house tomorrow so I will get some updated pics of them in their new 'crib.'

 

[boykin2010]

That ewes teats are HUGE! Are they warm and hard also? I had a ewe that had an udder that started looking like that. For some reason she started producing milk again even though her lambs had been weaned for 2 months. I thought maybe it would go away quickly but it didn't. Thankfully the breeder down the road had some excellent medicine for early mastitis in sheep. One was a steroid I think. As soon as I gave her the shot, the next day the udder was half her size. I believe the shot was called dexamethasone. It helped a lot. Thought I would mention that in case you needed something.