f**k Up Fortnight

[Estate fencing.]

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

Get them out, ewes and lambs do no good inside. Ours going into outside pens 18-24 hours old and into fields 1/2 days later. When ever iv kept sheep in the ewes just loose the milk.

 

[puppet]

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

25 pet lambs out of 99 sheep doesn't sound right. That would be one from all your 20 triplets (assuming all lived) and 5 from somewhere else. How is that possible?
When you say wet adoption what is your routine?
I would wash/dry the triplet, take the single away and put both in a bucket of warm water. Then cowp ewe, hand up a**e (well not strictly right) and present triplet as if she has just had another lamb. Own lamb joins her again later.

 

[steveR]

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

Out with them Dave.... As longs as they are doers and they have shelter somewhere from the worst weather.

 

[Jonp]

25 pet lambs out of 99 sheep doesn't sound right. That would be one from all your 20 triplets (assuming all lived) and 5 from somewhere else. How is that possible?
When you say wet adoption what is your routine?
I would wash/dry the triplet, take the single away and put both in a bucket of warm water. Then cowp ewe, hand up a**e (well not strictly right) and present triplet as if she has just had another lamb. Own lamb joins her again later.

That sounds a complicated adoption method. I just grab the adoptee, smother it in birth juices and plonk it in front of the ewe with her own lamb next to it. Hobble the adoptee if it's a bit wriggly and let the new one suck first.

 

[firther]

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.

good idea but i don't think i will let anyone else see this comment less i'll never get rid of em

 

[steveR]

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.

Yep, same here. No dog, just two geriatrics..... with a bucket!

 

[Fat Lamb]

That sounds a complicated adoption method. I just grab the adoptee, smother it in birth juices and plonk it in front of the ewe with her own lamb next to it. Hobble the adoptee if it's a bit wriggly and let the new one suck first.

Best way to twin singles is with a wet triplet just before she drops her own.

 

[firther]

Oh, you're a tad harsh there
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.......oh, on second thoughts, maybe not
A face only a mother could love.

its a 10 pinter

 

[Wood field]

its a 10 pinter

You don’t drink enough!! Unless of course … your Welsh

 

[steveR]

You don’t drink enough!! Unless of course … your WelshView attachment 1171630

 

[firther]

You don’t drink enough!! Unless of course … your WelshView attachment 1171630

woke societty must have bred them

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

25 pet lambs out of 99 sheep doesn't sound right. That would be one from all your 20 triplets (assuming all lived) and 5 from somewhere else. How is that possible?
When you say wet adoption what is your routine?
I would wash/dry the triplet, take the single away and put both in a bucket of warm water. Then cowp ewe, hand up a**e (well not strictly right) and present triplet as if she has just had another lamb. Own lamb joins her again later.

There was a set of quads that were scanned as 3 and we took 2 off. A case of mastitis with twins and a couple with not much milk where we took 1 off each. There continental ewes, good mothers to their own but very clever at working out which isn't.

 

[Jonp]

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.

Just been round the ewes and lambs.
Got to hop over the fence from field to field, if I go anywhere near a gate they think they're moving fields and mob me. No dog either, if I whistle they'll follow

 

[yellowbelly]

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

I know how you feel, them kind of ewes seldom take another ewes lamb.

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

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.

That sounds a complicated adoption method. I just grab the adoptee, smother it in birth juices and plonk it in front of the ewe with her own lamb next to it. Hobble the adoptee if it's a bit wriggly and let the new one suck first.

All this talk of adoption has put me in mind of yet another f**k up ...from a couple of years ago ............

The "Classic" Wet Adoption.

As our dear old friend @Gator used to say, "Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?" Had an old ewe lamb a nice pair of twin ewe lambs over the week end. Unfortunately she has a broken body and not much milk. There's only 2 ewes in that early group waiting to lamb - one scanned for...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[puppet]

That sounds a complicated adoption method. I just grab the adoptee, smother it in birth juices and plonk it in front of the ewe with her own lamb next to it. Hobble the adoptee if it's a bit wriggly and let the new one suck first.

Takes 5 minutes and mixes the scent better

 

[Wood field]

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

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

Pop some of these on if you're worried, best macs I've come across

 

[Wood field]

Pop some of these on if you're worried, best macs I've come across
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I got a bit caught out crawling around under a static caravan searching for leaks !
I’ll get a bunch out tomorrow, we have a little field next to the big shed, it’s a good shelter from the wind
And my vet students are here tomorrow…
They can witness ringing and tailing then they can take them outside

 

[primmiemoo]

Just been round the ewes and lambs.
Got to hop over the fence from field to field, if I go anywhere near a gate they think they're moving fields and mob me. No dog either, if I whistle they'll follow

Agnostic sheep? Do they ever wonder if dog exists?

 

[Wood field]

Here’s a weird one , one twin ok this one found like this , I can’t tell if it’s half black or its coat is stained
Mrs just tells me the good one may be blind
I don’t think schmallenburg (spelling) but who knows