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<blockquote data-quote="Guleesh" data-source="post: 8157172" data-attributes="member: 147187"><p>Final check last night around 10pm, my son and I wandered round the few left to lamb and find a ewe lambing that I didn't like the look of, so caught her, and could just feel some little feet kicking quite far back so just left her as waterbag was just emerging. Back to the house for a cup of tea. Went back out nearer midnight hoping to see she'd lambed, but no, so caught her again- raining hard by now of course. Two back feet and one front foot. Ah, she was scanned for single but it must be twins I thought, so tried to push the front leg back so I could take the nearer, backward lamb out first. I had great difficulty getting that front leg back out of the way but eventually managed to tuck it back far enough and proceeded to pull the backward lamb. What a pull for a tiny lamb. I kept stopping as I thought the other lambs leg was back, blocking the passage, but eventually I had to commit so after after a big twisting pull it came away. Turns out it wasn't two lambs coming together but the front and back legs of the same lamb, spine was seized solid in an L shape, and guts all hanging outside as his belly not closed up. The poor sod was born still living. [ATTACH=full]1038612[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lamb was small so checked the ewe for another and pulled a healthy twin out, put it under her nose, she started licking so we backed away. Well past midnight by now and after a quick lick of the lamb she jumps up and wanders off, fine, we'll walk her down to the pens, but no, instead she legs it straight through the electric fence....</p><p></p><p>Why do all the worst problems start at dusk? Just two nights previously I was out after midnight in torrential rain putting a uterine prolapse back in. </p><p></p><p>Getting a bit knackered now, done a lot more night time and early morning checks than usual but it's been worth it as I've saved a lot of big hung lambs this year, the spring was actually really good for a change and the lambs were big. I shouldn't complain too much really, it's been a good lambing on the whole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guleesh, post: 8157172, member: 147187"] Final check last night around 10pm, my son and I wandered round the few left to lamb and find a ewe lambing that I didn't like the look of, so caught her, and could just feel some little feet kicking quite far back so just left her as waterbag was just emerging. Back to the house for a cup of tea. Went back out nearer midnight hoping to see she'd lambed, but no, so caught her again- raining hard by now of course. Two back feet and one front foot. Ah, she was scanned for single but it must be twins I thought, so tried to push the front leg back so I could take the nearer, backward lamb out first. I had great difficulty getting that front leg back out of the way but eventually managed to tuck it back far enough and proceeded to pull the backward lamb. What a pull for a tiny lamb. I kept stopping as I thought the other lambs leg was back, blocking the passage, but eventually I had to commit so after after a big twisting pull it came away. Turns out it wasn't two lambs coming together but the front and back legs of the same lamb, spine was seized solid in an L shape, and guts all hanging outside as his belly not closed up. The poor sod was born still living. [ATTACH type="full"]1038612[/ATTACH] Lamb was small so checked the ewe for another and pulled a healthy twin out, put it under her nose, she started licking so we backed away. Well past midnight by now and after a quick lick of the lamb she jumps up and wanders off, fine, we'll walk her down to the pens, but no, instead she legs it straight through the electric fence.... Why do all the worst problems start at dusk? Just two nights previously I was out after midnight in torrential rain putting a uterine prolapse back in. Getting a bit knackered now, done a lot more night time and early morning checks than usual but it's been worth it as I've saved a lot of big hung lambs this year, the spring was actually really good for a change and the lambs were big. I shouldn't complain too much really, it's been a good lambing on the whole. [/QUOTE]
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