Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

[Mike CHS]

We are officially finished with lambing. It seems that the area I have been feeding in next to the house seems to be the lambing spot of choice this winter. This little lamb was born about an hour ago.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Congrats!!

 

[Baymule]

Congrats on the new and last lamb!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Adorable little lamb....congratulations

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't remember if I mentioned it or not but this group of 12 ewes are all yearlings aged 13-15 months old.

While I was feeding I checked the lamb that was born this morning and it is a ram lamb and weighs 11.1 pounds born to the smallest ewe we have in this group.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

11.1 pounds born to the smallest ewe we have in this group

Wowzers!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Thats a big lamb...congrats on all your lambs this year!

 

[Mike CHS]

This thread is about to shut down since we are finished lambing but I wanted to post a couple of pictures of the two bottle lambs. The third one that we found a home for is doing great. She went to a Mennonite family that has a daughter that has a flock of misfits and evidently a knack for bringing marginal animals into a healthy life.

Princess and Taffy are more independent than the rest of the lambs so they are going to be put in the nursing pen with the others in a few days and we can go out and provide their milk a few times a day. They are only feeding 3 times a day now and are eating the feed and grazing like big girls. We will give them the option of staying out with the others or coming back to their beds at night. They have learned that they are faster than we are (even at just 2 1/2 weeks old) so they are likely to get themselves in trouble since they think there is nothing to fear.

 

[Baymule]

Princess and Taffy are beautiful young ladies!

 

[Mike CHS]

Princess and Taffy are beautiful young ladies!

Bottle lambs are another experience that is nowhere near as hard as what you read about.

There was no getting up at night and they got fed on our schedule and they have done great. Your recipe for the milk worked great by the way and they are thriving.