f**k Up Fortnight

[yellowbelly]

Brutal weather last night. 1inch of rain/sleet/snow and temps down to just above freezing.

clear skies at 5am fur couple hours but now hammering it down again

hills above me are white, and thru arnt high hills and only a few miles from the coast

I fully expected to pick up dead lambs this morning but so far all ok. Just two lots of doubles to check.

Ground is sodden. Ewes look miserable. Lambs huddled up in what shelter they can find.

Fed up…

These are not supposed to start for another few days..

...at least she waited for a gap in the weather to lamb bit still managed to drop them in a muddy puddle
The one sitting down isn't too bad but the little one definitely has that 'domed head, born before it's time' look.
We have a field shelter, with 2 or 3 pens in it, in that lambing park so I popped them in a pen and went for a tube and some colostrum.
In the meantime the little guy must have had a suck as he definitely wasn't empty when I tubed him.

 

[Keithy1394]

If there is one thing that really pisses me off with indoor lambing is ewes laying on lambs in pens theres bloody stupid

 

[Keithy1394]

Then top it off just pulled a pair of dead lambs out of our outside lambing ewes that are suppose to start this weekend

 

[yellowbelly]

If there is one thing that really pisses me off with indoor lambing is ewes laying on lambs in pens theres bloody stupid

Yeah, that's a real bu99er. Had the first, laid on in the pen, episode of the year, this morning
I thought we were doing well

At least she still has another one.....



.....for now

 

[puppet]

In best FuF fashion, lost a mahoosive triple late last night, No,2 coming backward Other two bright as a berry this morning. So not a fail by any means.

2 live lambs out of triplets always counts as success

 

[Jerry]

Finally something to make me smile this afternoon. The sun was out briefly but spotted the first swallows zooming over a group of singles.

 

[Wood field]

In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ?
lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo

 

[Jerry]

In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ?
lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo

Not used it myself but heard good reports of this.

Veloron Supplement

Veloron Supplement is a specific feed for newborn lambs or lambs born weak or distressed.

www.farmsense.com

 

[paul&mandy]

ready for outdoor lambing

 

[copse]

View attachment 1172445ready for outdoor lambing

Water birth?

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ?
lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo

Jab them

 

[paul&mandy]

havent bothered with the snacker feeder this year. This was my effort to get to some dry spot to feed with bags. I failed and reversed out.

 

[Wood field]

Jab them

Gave one 1 ml of betamox and another 1/2 ml alamycin down the throat Just from reading various threads

 

[steveR]

View attachment 1172445ready for outdoor lambing

Easycare would manage that, piece of cake....

Clever gals would be in the back of the Mule, ASAP!!

 

[aangus]

In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ?
lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo

1ml of alamycin la down the throat at time of dipping navel

 

[steveR]

View attachment 1172446
havent bothered with the snacker feeder this year. This was my effort to get to some dry spot to feed with bags. I failed and reversed out.

Did well to get out without a winch!!

 

[Wood field]

1ml of alamycin la down the throat at time of dipping navel

Used to have spectam but only used sparingly, do you treat all of them ?

 

[aangus]

Used to have spectam but only used sparingly, do you treat all of them ?

twins and trips

 

[steveR]

Gave one 1 ml of betamox and another 1/2 ml alamycin down the throat Just from reading various threads

 

[Wood field]

View attachment 1172446
havent bothered with the snacker feeder this year. This was my effort to get to some dry spot to feed with bags. I failed and reversed out.

My son was here today so I sent him off to one of the sheds with one of the students, to grab a buggy full of small bales and a look over the moor ewes, fortunately I said leave the buggy on the track and walk round the sheep, even on the top fields he said it was saturated, while they did that the other student and myself, shifted the expectant easycare experiment to a bit of fresh grazing ( caught a prolapsed ewes whilst at it)
Seems no end in sight to this rain