SheepGirl's 2013 Lambing Thread - Update - July 2013

[bonbean01]

Hope your snowstorm doesn't get too bad...nor too cold!!! Maybe the lambs will wait for better weather to arrive?

Know what you mean about shelter and lambing...we started out too small since we only got one ewe and one ram to start with...we have built on that shelter now two times and enclosed two areas for birthing...wish we'd gone bigger to start with, but oh well...the last built on area for the right pitch of roof means we have to remember to duck a bit to not bash our heads

 

[SheepGirl]

I know what you mean about the shelter. I had wanted to expand the sheep shack to 8x16 before lambs arrived, but that hasn't happened. Might not happen, since my mom said we're building a barn this spring (was supposed to be back during Thanksgiving). I'm paying for part of it, so I get to choose the size lol One thing we can't agree on is where to put it--I want it outside the field, my mom wants it inside (I don't want to waste all that grass though!)...and then we can't put it on top of the septic tank (takes up about 1/2 of the spots we could put it)...and we also can't put it where it blocks the view of the mountains (my mom likes to look out the kitchen windows looking at the mountains when she's washing dishes/cooking dinner). And so other places that are left would be too far away from a source of water or too far away for an extension cord (we have no plans to put in electric). So I don't know lol

 

[Bridgemoof]

I wish you the best luck with Ciqala Sheepgirl! I know this awful snow is coming and it's a worry if a ewe is going to lamb in it. You better get up around 4 or 5 a.m. to check, because the snow and rain is supposed to start around midnight? I sure hope she lambs in the daylight and before you go to work!

I brought all my pregnant ewes up to the sheep shed, but not locked in. So at least if they lamb we will be able to see them in the middle of the night with our flashlights as opposed to walking around in the dark down in the pasture looking for lambs.

 

[SheepGirl]

Lol, I probably won't wake up that early! I hope she holds off until Friday, though. She has lambed 3 out of 4 times on a Friday (other time was a Thursday).

And I hope your sheep make it thru the storm okay and I hope yours hold off on having babies too!

 

[autumnprairie]

I just found your kidding thread
I hope she waits until Friday to kid too

 

[Bridgemoof]

LOL @AutumnPrairie. A little late to the game.

 

[SheepGirl]

hahaha well I went out to check on them this morning at 7 am after my mom woke me up to 'go check on my lamb because there's something laying outside.' Ughh! Way to freak a girl out lol. Baby was fine, all cuddled up in the sheep shack. Ciqala and Ali were outside laying in the snow. Katy Perry and Lady Gaga were just standing in the doorway of the sheep shack. And it looks like Ciqala isn't going to lamb today! Right now we already have 4 inches of snow. Weather people say 10-14 inches by tonight.

 

[Bridgemoof]

It's a terrible wet snow, too! We have about 7" so far. All my clothes and coats are soaked already. I sure hope Ciqala holds off. Are you going to have to go to work today?

 

[SheepGirl]

Remember how I said Ciqala looked big enough to have triplets? Well she did!! I am so proud of her, she had trips nine months after she had twins. She is a great prolific ewe!! 2 ewes, 1 ram. My mom woke me up at 6:30 to tell me there were lambs out there, unfortunately there were only two. The third one was in the sheep shack dead. My guess is that the dead one was the first one born and then she went off to deliver the other two and forgot about the first one. She was laying on wet bedding so freezing before mom could lick her off is my guess. So we have 2 live lambs out of 3. She had pretty much just had them when I got outside, they were just learning how to stand. I moved her into the sheep shack and made sure the babies nursed. Unfortunately the ONE time I don't have Thursday off, Ciqala decides to lamb! Oh well. lol

Pics tonight! <3

 

[purplequeenvt]

That's a bummer about the one. I glad the other 2 are doing well. And umm.....where are the pictures?????

ETA - I did see that you said that you would post pics tonight, but that is too long to wait.