Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

[Wehner Homestead]

You’ve started a trend of twinning! Yay for what looks to be a productive year!

 

[Mike CHS]

You’ve started a trend of twinning! Yay for what looks to be a productive year!

Thank you. This first group are our 2 & 3 year olds. I'm curious to see how the bigger group that are up next does as they are all first timers.

 

[Mike CHS]

We still are on lamb watch. I also don't know what I was looking at with the last set of twins. We were putting on ear tags this afternoon and when I turned the lambs over, they are both ewe lambs instead of one each.

 

[farmerjan]

Don't think you are the only one who has ever done that.... Had a calf that looked like a little bull from a few feet away... turned out to be a heifer that had little fatty legs and long hair and looked like a bull. We never tag anything anymore until we do the "feel" test... And I really like to see them pee... that's pretty definitive

 

[CntryBoy777]

One thing is for sure....they are all Beautiful animals, irregardless of their gender.....

 

[Mike CHS]

Thanks Fred. The lambs so far are much tamer than the previous seasons but I assume it is because the dams are all really docile now. The lambs aren't learning that it's best to run when those mean people approach you. Our first lambing we had to catch them before two days old but now they just walk up and let you pick them up.

 

[farmerjan]

It's the same way with some of our cattle. The calves out of the first calf heifers that we raised are so much easier to be around. The momma's aren't skittish, so the babies aren't. They will come up and sniff and be curious much more so than any from bought animals.

 

[Baymule]

I love baby watch!

 

[Rammy]

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I keep expecting Mike to announce that five or six ewes lambed at the same time or one right after the other!