Mine are loose in the shed with the last of the ewes, definite trip hazard, they're determined little so and so's, ready to leap into frenzied action at any sign of me.Heself has 2 sets of twins in a handy shed where the Mums are a bit light on milk. She loves feeding them as it feels more rewarding I guess, as after a few days, they are good to go...Even better if they are a potential breeder as they will be that bit easier to handle, all their life.
f**k Up Fortnight
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I know how you feel, them kind of ewes seldom take another ewes lamb.Not a cock up as such but every year I think we end up with far too many pet lambs. Have 25 at the moment from the first 99 ewes and 21 have been turned away with singles. On paper it was the perfect scan for this not to happen, these scanned 59 twins, 20 singles and 20 triplets. But, apart from a handful mules, which being mules none had singles, the rest are continental ewes and they won’t have it.
The only thing that may work is a wet foster on to a single if the timing is perfect, or skinning a lamb if one loses a single, but still very difficult. The other day for example a single lambed at the same time as a triplet, took the last triplet as soon as it was out of it’s mother and the single ewe, licked it, let it suck so it got a full belly but the next day kicked it off.
The ewes are very good mothers , but only to their own lambs.
Probably no answer, but it feels like a cock up
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We try and adopt any we can , sometimes they can be in the pet pen a fortnight waiting for a ewe , that was the good thing with the Welsh ewes , they would easily take a lamb .
Bucket of warm water and the dead lamb plus any cleansing and slop the poor orphan in it , honestly 9 out of 10 straight on
Textels could be bitches, up to a week in the stocks but my determination not to feed bloody pet lambs was stronger than theirs Otherwise, it’s up to the mrs , if she wants pets, she feeds them
Bucket of warm water and the dead lamb plus any cleansing and slop the poor orphan in it , honestly 9 out of 10 straight on
Textels could be bitches, up to a week in the stocks but my determination not to feed bloody pet lambs was stronger than theirs Otherwise, it’s up to the mrs , if she wants pets, she feeds them
Aspiring Peasants
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We’ve tried everything but once you have continental ewes have found it a losing battle. We may think it’s worked and then you pick up the lamb dead in the field after a wet night a few weeks later, the bond just isn’t there. We have mules as well which are easier but not many of them have singles
They are used like a Meals on Wheels basis now i believe. See a van delivering locally 2-3 times.Leave this webpage open for her to read.....
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My old man had something similiar 25 years ago as MoW did not do rural deliveries.
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The most durable adoptions seem to be the young ones, maybe a day or so old, put on a single immediately when it lambs.
Last year had a ewe, lost her lamb at about 2 weeks, easily adopted a similar aged lamb when its' mother died. Easily recognised ewe as she has a slight parrot mouth, saved her self from a trip on the cull wagon. Cracking ram lamb this year from her.
No hard set rules for sheep are there
We have 5 yo Texel X cade that is a nightmare like that when I feed the ewes, a switf left foot disuades her usually.... Ugly as sin too
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Done the Cumbria way with Mrs w a few years back, first night we camped on a farm , woke up and peeped out of the tent to an Orwellian nightmare, ugly feking sheep everywhere ! We christened them pig sheep, and to this day that’s what we call Beltex’s
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Small 100 ewe flock without a dog.
We try to keep a pet ewe lamb to breed from, just because its so easy to move the flock from field to field, if one ewe will lead.
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After mother died we arranged for my father to have Wiltshire Farm Foods deliveries and that worked really well. We’re lucky there’s a cafe and outside catering business not far away and we can get frozen meals from which are very good. Plus I can cook actually, I do a mean bacon sandwich
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Oh, you're a tad harsh there
.......oh, on second thoughts, maybe not
A face only a mother could love.
Aspiring Peasants
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Put up with it though if getting £240 for itOh, you're a tad harsh there
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.......oh, on second thoughts, maybe not
A face only a mother could love.
I do hope that is a photshopped hybrid monster.....Oh, you're a tad harsh there
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.......oh, on second thoughts, maybe not
A face only a mother could love.
Although I am not a great enthusiast for "TV meals", a curry and rice from the freezer with some peas, is a quick and easy meal in a rush or late on.After mother died we arranged for my father to have Wiltshire Farm Foods deliveries and that worked really well. We’re lucky there’s a cafe and outside catering business not far away and we can get frozen meals from which are very good. Plus I can cook actually, I do a mean bacon sandwich
Fish and chips is not cheap, and not that convenient for us anyway. We had family visiting and they asked about Deliveroo..... One look at our lane and they say No.
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Hold my beerAlthough I am not a great enthusiast for "TV meals", a curry and rice from the freezer with some peas, is a quick and easy meal in a rush or late on.
Fish and chips is not cheap, and not that convenient for us anyway. We had family visiting and they asked about Deliveroo..... One look at our lane and they say No.
Rain overnight, but a grand morning albeit beluddy cold in a biting wind, so emptied the sheds ready for the influx next week when more wet is forecast. Ewes and lambs from yesterday have found a good hedge to get under and look happy, which cheers me up...
Any snow Up North you chaps/chapesses?
Any snow Up North you chaps/chapesses?
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Was hellish cold here in the wind, eased off and warm in the sun, just for today
Normal service will be resumed tomorrow
primmiemoo
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Ha! There's often a tame lamb nicknamed Trip, short for Trip Hazard, here. Had a beautiful little ewe reared as a tamer years ago who earned the name Ambush from day one. She had a particular place in one of the platts for lying up that's now called Ambush's Corner.
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Warm ( er) today dare I turn a few out
I’ve still got shed space but ..,,
If those corks start popping it could get interesting
I’ve still got shed space but ..,,
If those corks start popping it could get interesting
We wet foster into every single with fresh triplets, works works 95% of the time, some old mules know though. Still can’t get rid of triplet lambs very quick and have to lift 10/12 a day into the pets.
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