Stomp & Steer Lambing Thread

[tiana29]

Not to much to update. Everyone seem to be happy and holding tight to those lambs. I have only seen there utter increasing in size but no mucus plugs, pawing the ground or going off feed. So of course now I'm starting to question my book keeping skills. I had the four pregger girls separated from the ram and other "none" pregger girl but since no one is showing sign's of labor they are all back together in the pasture.
Claire:


Annie:


Tipsey:


Bambi:

 

[tiana29]

Oh, I'm so excited. Tipsey lambed today!! Really no sign except when I went to feed her this morning she looked more sunken in on her sides (she still ate her grain) and then when I checked on her at about 1:00 pm she was off by herself and nesting. So I moved her, Bambi and Claire back to the "back field" which is within spying distance and watched. She had a 8.2 lbs ram at about 2:30 pm. I still have not seen her pass the after birth and it's 6:00 so I'm not sure if I should start to worry. Here's pictures:

 

[tiana29]

Ok, she passed the after birth.

 

[tiana29]

Well, I now have 2 babies.
Bambi gave birth to this little 5.8 lbs. ewe yesterday after I left for work. She was clean, dry and full belly so I guess everything went fine.


And Tipsey's baby is now named Stomp & Steer Remi:

Claire continues to get bigger. I say she looks like a wine barrel walking. Her utter has got a lot bigger over the past week and I think she will have "them" (fingers crossed) by this weekend...


Annie I still don't know about. She big and looks pregnant but no utter to speak of. I know that she has never given birth so maybe she is just waiting on dropping milk. I did not get a picture of her because nothing has really changed.

 

[tiana29]

Wow, we had a rough weekend.
Claire started to show signs of going into labor on Friday night at about 9:00 p.m. We stayed up with her all night and checked for progress at about 2:00 a.m. She was making progress but was not dilated enough. So we gave her some more time and checked again at 3:30 a.m. she was dilated more but still not enough so I manually stimulated her cervix and gave her some more time. She finally passed a 5.2 lbs ram at about 5:30 a.m. She did a very good job cleaning him up but he was still wet at 6:00 a.m. and getting to cold so I stepped in and dried him off and warmed him up. I watched him drink twice before I went in to try a sleep a little. I went back outside at 8:00 and he was chilled so I warmed him up on a hot bottle of water and momma made sure he drank but he was still lethargic at 11:00 a.m. so a friend came over and showed me how to tube feed him. That really helped. Gave him a boost of energy and he has been fine since that point. A friend of mine wanted to name him so meet Stomp & Steer Stewie.

I would like to point out that I realize that was a long time for her to be in labor but she never seemed distressed. From about 9:00 pm to 3:00 a.m. she would push and then take a 20 minute break. While on her breaks she would lie down and chew her cud but never seemed in distress which is why I tried to intervene as little as possible.

Now, unfortunately, we lost Annie on Sunday. She started pawing the ground and nesting at about noon on Saturday but again she would maybe push every 30 minutes or so and just lay down and chew her cud and again not seems to be in distress. She did this all day Saturday and by about 11:00 p.m. you could see that she had "dropped" and her stomach was more hallowed out so I was thinking that she was just positioning the lamb. We were surprised when Sunday came around and still nothing. At about 1:00 p.m. on Sunday we finally saw the bag come out. By 2:30 she had made little progress so I went in to feel. Her cervix was still small and the lamb was coming backwards. I tried to manually stimulate her cervix but it did not seem to be making progress so I called my friend and she brought the vet with her. The vet tried for over an hour to simulate her cervix and pull the lamb. He said that the lambed died a few days ago and the ewe had ring womb. He said that there was nothing that we could have done differently to change the out come and that mother nature just probably never meant for her to have lambs. He said we could take her in for a c-section or we would have to put her down. We made the hard decision to put her down. She is 8 years old, had never been breed before I was given her last year and even if she survived she could not be bred again which would create problems trying to keep her away from my ram on my small place. We did process her out for dog food because I disagree with wasting her. She had a full term beautifully marked little ewe that had definitely died a few days ago.
RIP Annie. I'm sorry your last days were so rough.

 

[newgirl97]

Very exciting about your two little rams!

And I'm very sorry about Annie and her Ewe I hope the rest of your lambing goes perfectly!

 

[tiana29]

Thank you @newgirl97 ! We now have the two rams and one ewe lamb (her name is Betsey). I only have one other ewe that I'm just hoping at this point she finally settled. She continued to come into heat until January and I have not seen any sign of her coming back in so time will tell if she finally is preggers but that would mean she is not due until June. I hope your lambing is a success and a high percentage of ewes.

 

[taylorm17]

I love Tipsey and her baby. They look so much alike! So happy for the healthy babies and am very sorry for your loss.

 

[tiana29]

Thank you @taylorm17
Here's a couple of updated pictures. I just love little Stewie. He is so friendly and comes right up to us. If you scratch his chest he will shake his back leg like a dog.

And I think the hardest thing to do is get a picture with all three babies in frame.
From left to right: Remi, Betsey, Bambi (Betsey mom), Tipsey (Remi's mom), Claire and little Stewie.