Our March Madness
Here is a short video of our 1st Lambs of 2021 at about 1hr old. Mar 1: 1 set of twins Mar 2: 1 single and 2 sets of twins Mar 3: 1 single and 3 sets of twins Mar 4: 1 set of twins Mar 5: 6 s...
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Mar 15: 3 sets of twins and 1 single (final tally for the day)
Mar 16: 4 sets of twins
Mar 17: 1 set of twins (as of 8am)
59 ewes have lambed
105 live lambs
4 dead lambs
We didn't have an accurate count of ewes bred because we made some last minute changes (breeding a couple of ewes we were going to keep for training the dogs and adding a few yearlings we were going to take to auction). Based upon what we see in our flock we believe there is only one pregnant ewe remaining. It's hard to know just by looking because many of the ewes are fat even after delivering lambs; we were feeding grain based upon all the ewes (bred ewes plus 20 or so not bred ewes) even after the not bred ewes were moved to a different field. To know for certain we would need to sort off all the ewes we recorded as having lambs which is more stress on the ewes and lambs than it is worth.
We know based upon when we pulled the rams off their ewes and the gestation period for sheep (5months) the month of March is when they would deliver. Based upon when we have been getting lambs we know that the rams "got busy" the first 2 weeks they were with their ewes.
Mar 16: 4 sets of twins
Mar 17: 1 set of twins (as of 8am)
59 ewes have lambed
105 live lambs
4 dead lambs
We didn't have an accurate count of ewes bred because we made some last minute changes (breeding a couple of ewes we were going to keep for training the dogs and adding a few yearlings we were going to take to auction). Based upon what we see in our flock we believe there is only one pregnant ewe remaining. It's hard to know just by looking because many of the ewes are fat even after delivering lambs; we were feeding grain based upon all the ewes (bred ewes plus 20 or so not bred ewes) even after the not bred ewes were moved to a different field. To know for certain we would need to sort off all the ewes we recorded as having lambs which is more stress on the ewes and lambs than it is worth.
We know based upon when we pulled the rams off their ewes and the gestation period for sheep (5months) the month of March is when they would deliver. Based upon when we have been getting lambs we know that the rams "got busy" the first 2 weeks they were with their ewes.
