Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

[Mike CHS]

What is the Boy/girl % so far?

This group of eight ewes had two singles and the rest were twins. There have been 6 ram lambs and 8 ewe lambs with both of the singles coming from ewes that always lamb singles, but huge single. The two singles look 3 weeks older than the rest of the lambs and none of them were under 8 pounds when they were born.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Those are good numbers so far. Are you planning to cull out the ones who give singletons?

 

[Mike CHS]

Those are good numbers so far. Are you planning to cull out the ones who give singletons?

We have culled all the others that had singles but these two produce lambs that bring a premium due to their size. Both of their ram lambs last time sold at ram prices rather than meat at 90 days old.

 

[RollingAcres]

It is 17 degrees out there and not a single one of them is inside where the heat lamp is.

Sometimes you wonder what they're thinking...I know I'd rather be inside where it's warm when it's 17 degrees outside.
My cows are the same way, they have a barn they can go in for shelter but sometimes I see them covered in icicles.

 

[Mike CHS]

Just some random pictures and then I'll give this thread a rest till the next batch starts lambing.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Way too cute babies ....

 

[Rammy]

You should submit these for picture of the week. That first one is way to cute.

 

[Mike CHS]

I meant to mention with that last set of pictures that the third picture is the spotted ram lamb and his sibling ewe. He weighed 11 1/2 pounds and the ewe lamb weighed 10 3/4. That is a whole lot of lambs in one stubby ewe.

The dam of those two lambs was a single that weighed 14.3 pounds.

 

[Baymule]

You have a real nice flock. Nice ewes and cute lambs.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had our creep feeder attached to a T-post but the ewes kept turning it over. I mounted it to a plywood platform and the lambs took about 30 seconds to get used to it. A couple of the single ram lambs won't be able to use it for very long since they are growing so fast. A couple of the ewes have overly long tongues so they can get a piece or two but that's about it.