2014 Lambing

CA POPPY wrote:

Now wait, the ewe that had triplets two years in a row and lost one each time is now on the cull list. If she'd just had the twins, would she still be culled? Or is the reason that she does not attend to the lamps properly? Just interested in the justification process. Who says the ram doesn't throw weak offspring?

We went out to the barnyard for our last check of the day on the ewes & lambs and found a dead lamb; another one of this ewe's triplets. Her lambs had been doing well. I suspect that she is not producing enough milk for her remaining 2 lambs and with the drop in temperature; the lambs need more calories to keep warm. An alternative is she did not keep up with this lamb allowing it to nurse often enough.

There was a new set of twins this morning.