2014 Lambing
Lambing started President's Day with a set of triplets. Good thing I finished building our permananet lambing pens (4) in an unused part of our large barn. The triplets are strong and were moved to ...
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This life is not for the faint of heart.
I was met by my wife when I arrived home yesterday that one of our ewes was dead. The ewe was a new mom and was in a pen with its lamb (born Tuesday). The ewe was eating hay and managed to get her head between the wall and the wall mounted hay rack like this one.
When she did that her jaw bone hooked on the side of the hay rack; the bar was pushing into the side of her neck behind her jaw bone. In her struggle to get free she strangled herself. My wife found her not long after she died.
We moved her orphan lamb two pens down to another new mom with a single. The foster ewe is reluctantly allowing the orphan to nurse some and will hopefully accept it.
The bottle lamb is getting stronger and based upon how much bottle milk it wants we suspect either is is leanring to steal milk or her mom is now producing a little milk.
We had another set of twins born yesterday. We also double checked when we pulled the rams off and lambing will go till the 28th.
Triplets: 12 sets
Twins: 42 sets
Singles: 14
Still born: 3
Died: 6
128 live lambs
68 ewes lambed out of 75
I was met by my wife when I arrived home yesterday that one of our ewes was dead. The ewe was a new mom and was in a pen with its lamb (born Tuesday). The ewe was eating hay and managed to get her head between the wall and the wall mounted hay rack like this one.
When she did that her jaw bone hooked on the side of the hay rack; the bar was pushing into the side of her neck behind her jaw bone. In her struggle to get free she strangled herself. My wife found her not long after she died.
We moved her orphan lamb two pens down to another new mom with a single. The foster ewe is reluctantly allowing the orphan to nurse some and will hopefully accept it.
The bottle lamb is getting stronger and based upon how much bottle milk it wants we suspect either is is leanring to steal milk or her mom is now producing a little milk.
We had another set of twins born yesterday. We also double checked when we pulled the rams off and lambing will go till the 28th.
Triplets: 12 sets
Twins: 42 sets
Singles: 14
Still born: 3
Died: 6
128 live lambs
68 ewes lambed out of 75
