Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Well then I am guessing tomorrow! One of each. 
SheepGirl's 2013 Lambing Thread - Update - July 2013
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Ali's udder is tight, and a bit bigger than a softball. I hope we have babies sooooon! I'm so excited to see Hank's babies!!
It's funny, now that I'm using a ram I picked out, I'm more excited for lambing lol. When my neighbor picked out rams, I would be like okay, wait until they were bred, get a rough idea of the earliest they were due, forget when they were due (lol) and be surprised & ecstatic when babies arrived on time. haha My neighbor had a whiteboard in the barn with the earliest lambing date wrote on it so we wouldn't forget vaccinations...and then all of the other due dates were written down in the record book. I wish I had it! Then I could see the average gestation of the flock, which would be good since my ewes are genetically similar to all the ewes my neighbor had.
It's funny, now that I'm using a ram I picked out, I'm more excited for lambing lol. When my neighbor picked out rams, I would be like okay, wait until they were bred, get a rough idea of the earliest they were due, forget when they were due (lol) and be surprised & ecstatic when babies arrived on time. haha My neighbor had a whiteboard in the barn with the earliest lambing date wrote on it so we wouldn't forget vaccinations...and then all of the other due dates were written down in the record book. I wish I had it! Then I could see the average gestation of the flock, which would be good since my ewes are genetically similar to all the ewes my neighbor had.
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
Two ewes tomorrow. Book it
Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Straw and I guessed the same day 
OK Sheepgirl, now you get to see a lot of this til lambing time:
OK Sheepgirl, now you get to see a lot of this til lambing time:
SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
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Nothing yet, but went out a half hour ago, all the sheep were chewing cud except for her. I was out there for 10 minutes watching her and not once did she bring her cud up. So she might be working on those babies. I will check on her in an hour or two.
Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
goodolboy
Ridin' The Range
Did she eat today? Alot of our will quit eating the day before or the day of.
purplequeenvt
Herd Master
Our sheep never stop eating. We've had ewes in full blown labor jump up and run to the feeders if they thought they were missing out on something.
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lol, I rarely see my sheep lamb, I've only seen maybe no more than three or four, and almost all were at a distance. Except one. I was putting feed out in the feeder, she came up, shoved everyone out of the way and ate pretty much all of it. When she made sure there was none left, she went in the corner of the barn, laid down, and within 5-10 minutes plopped out a lamb. Less than 2-3 minutes later she plopped out a second one.purplequeenvt said:
She had the white boy first and then had a black girl.Mostly I catch them right after they lamb when the babies are still wet or sometimes I will catch them a couple hours old, already all dried off.
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As for Ali, no babies yet....
It is so frustrating knowing the due dates of your ewes!! lol I wish I was more carefree about everything like I was when they lived at my neighbor's farm.
