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In moment of madness (well it seems to be now) I bought 3 pedigree beltex ewes to have as something nice to look at out the window and maybe get the odd ram out of them to put back to the mules. I had been warned not to feed them during pregnancy, so they have had nothing but grass since the autumn, and bugger all grass at that (was grazed level in the autumn).
Well one started to lamb yesterday and was making a meal of it, so had a feel, no chance couldn't get a hand through the pelvis, so off to the vets for her to try, that resulted in a C section with one live and one dead lamb (typical the ram lamb died) got home from the vets to find the other 2 had started again had a wee feel, no chance, so off to the vets with those. I am now the first client that our vets has done three C sections on the trot on the same day!
The ewe with a single to be fair had a lamb that was a reasonable size but the twin'd ewes had small lambs, (if they had been out of mules I'd have said they were tiny) but even then there was no chance of the lambs getting out.
Have I just been unlucky and managed to pick 3 abnormally tight ewes (there was no fat in the birth canal, just bone).
Or was I foolish to think that a beltex ewe could lamb a beltex lamb?
I think I now have 3 very expensive lawn mowers.......
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Well one started to lamb yesterday and was making a meal of it, so had a feel, no chance couldn't get a hand through the pelvis, so off to the vets for her to try, that resulted in a C section with one live and one dead lamb (typical the ram lamb died) got home from the vets to find the other 2 had started again had a wee feel, no chance, so off to the vets with those. I am now the first client that our vets has done three C sections on the trot on the same day!
The ewe with a single to be fair had a lamb that was a reasonable size but the twin'd ewes had small lambs, (if they had been out of mules I'd have said they were tiny) but even then there was no chance of the lambs getting out.
Have I just been unlucky and managed to pick 3 abnormally tight ewes (there was no fat in the birth canal, just bone).
Or was I foolish to think that a beltex ewe could lamb a beltex lamb?
I think I now have 3 very expensive lawn mowers.......
C B