Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

[Baymule]

I'll let you and Teresa blaze the trail on bottle lambs. Y'all can keep making the updates on their progress. Then if I ever get bottle lambs, I will know what to do. LOL LOL

I like the name Taffy. She is getting a real name! Not just a tag number.

 

[Mike CHS]

The lambs get moved out to the outside kennel tonight. Taffy is growing so fast that she isn't enjoying sharing the cage with the other one. They like to all lay in a pile like siblings outside so it works well.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had another set of twins born this morning. Our routine has gotten out of whack with this bunch so we are going to bring them in this afternoon and try to figure out which lamb(s) belongs to which ewes and put in ear tags. If the remaining 6 have all singles, we will be around 53 head.

 

[Mike CHS]

The twins that were born this morning are one ewe and one ram lamb.

We put the bottle lambs into one of the holding pens that gives them lots of rain and it is adjacent to the othe

r group of sheep with their lambs.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I just love Taffy!

 

[Mike CHS]

We put ear tags on all of the lambs except one single that was born as we were tagging the rest of those so now we just have 5 ewes left to lamb. We will do the tags on the bottle lambs tomorrow when we go down and do the single that was just born.

We had one ram lamb that must have been miserable since it appears his baby poop dried up on him and he was just about plugged up. Third shower for today took place right after getting him cleaned up and working right.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We had one ram lamb that must have been miserable since it appears his baby poop dried up on him and he was just about plugged up.

It can be like unblocking a dam when you get that plug off....

 

[Rammy]

Oh, the visual......

 

[misfitmorgan]

We have had that happen before....it's not fun.

Congrats on getting ear tags on. Do you find the tags weigh down their ears and sort of deform it even as adults?

I have noticed some sheep that seem to have one slanty/saggy ear and it is always the tagged one. It just hangs a little different. I dont know if it is from the tags or just from them itching the tagged ear a lot or what.

 

[Mike CHS]

Up until now the ears were big enough that they didn't get weighed down. For some reason (and it may be my imagination) the ears on most seem to be a bit smaller.