It's that time of year!
I stepped out of the back door this morning on my way to work and heard the sound of a lamb calling to its mom. My wife texted me saying the ewe had not delivered her second lamb yet; so the cries I ...
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8 sets of triplets
28 sets of twins
14 singles
7 died at birth or within a week
1 ewe and her twins died due to birthing issues
We haven't done necropsies; we don't have the knowledge to perform a necropsy, the cost of a farm call is too high, and I don't know if there still is a state/county vet in our county to take a corpse to for a necropsy.
Typically we don't fault the ewe for the death of an older lamb if the ewe has milk and didn't abandon her lamb. In the case of this tiny twin it is likely the lamb was not quite right to survive unless everything was perfect. In which case we wouldn't want the genes of this weaker animal in our flock.
28 sets of twins
14 singles
7 died at birth or within a week
1 ewe and her twins died due to birthing issues
We haven't done necropsies; we don't have the knowledge to perform a necropsy, the cost of a farm call is too high, and I don't know if there still is a state/county vet in our county to take a corpse to for a necropsy.
Typically we don't fault the ewe for the death of an older lamb if the ewe has milk and didn't abandon her lamb. In the case of this tiny twin it is likely the lamb was not quite right to survive unless everything was perfect. In which case we wouldn't want the genes of this weaker animal in our flock.
