help/predictions

[spin cycle]

had a ewe looking like lambing last night....clear first ectoplasm.......left her

this morning she's no further forward apart from ominous looking trickle of afterbirthy looking stuff

had little feel....opened her slightly.....could feel mouth of lamb behind what i think is waterbag (didn't want to go mad maulin)

no horrible smell

thinking perhaps lamb hung up inside recently dead...or is she just really slow

 

[Muddyroads]

There are folk much better qualified to advise than me, but if she was mine I’d get on and lamb her. If the lamb is dead it won’t be doing her any good, if it’s alive it might not be for much longer!

 

[delilah]

Well mouth but no feet is both legs back so get in there.

 

[Al R]

Put lube in and go back 20 minutes later and put another lot of lube in. Better off pulling a freshly dead lamb out than waiting until tomorrow and you pull it out limb by limb

 

[Woolless]

had a ewe looking like lambing last night....clear first ectoplasm.......left her

this morning she's no further forward apart from ominous looking trickle of afterbirthy looking stuff

had little feel....opened her slightly.....could feel mouth of lamb behind what i think is waterbag (didn't want to go mad maulin)

no horrible smell

thinking perhaps lamb hung up inside recently dead...or is she just really slow

You've given her plenty of time. Only one thing for it! At least it's at 8am, not the middle of the night!

 

[spin cycle]

thanks all

 

[onthehoof]

 

[yellowbelly]

..awaiting the outcome (and blow by blow account)

 

[beardface]

I use a product called sensiblex on heifers. Can use it on sheep will make her open up. Only about 15 quid a bottle.

 

[spin cycle]

by the time i got back she was eating + discharge had stopped ....but got her down and she'd opened up bit more....the nose i felt was second lamb...a full breach was blocking.....got that out but it was dead

BUT THEN.....went back in and

legs back on both of em

meanwhile out on field a 10yr old wilt showed em how it's done

kinda wish she'd had single in some ways not sure he can handle twins at her age

 

[spin cycle]

oh and before i get 'slated' for tupping 10 yr old ewe....please keep in mind....camera on full zoom and it's still as close as i've got to her in a year

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I use a product called sensiblex on heifers. Can use it on sheep will make her open up. Only about 15 quid a bottle.

This is good stuff

 

[delilah]

Yo Spinmeister, I've just worked out why you practice AYR lambing, it gets you out of going to church, clever.

 

[onthehoof]

by the time i got back she was eating + discharge had stopped ....but got her down and she'd opened up bit more....the nose i felt was second lamb...a full breach was blocking.....got that out but it was dead

BUT THEN.....went back in and

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legs back on both of em

meanwhile out on field a 10yr old wilt showed em how it's done

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kinda wish she'd had single in some ways not sure he can handle twins at her age

Good result

 

[Highland Mule]

oh and before i get 'slated' for tupping 10 yr old ewe....please keep in mind....camera on full zoom and it's still as close as i've got to her in a year

No slating from me. I have an old dear here that gets checked every year for teeth and udder and always good. Mrs HM was checking back records and she’d given us twins for the last 8 years and a single the first year as a gimmer. Think this might be her last as she’s slowed down a bit, but she’s making a grand job of two ewe lambs, so I’ll keep them for the flock.

 

[Woolless]

by the time i got back she was eating + discharge had stopped ....but got her down and she'd opened up bit more....the nose i felt was second lamb...a full breach was blocking.....got that out but it was dead

BUT THEN.....went back in and

View attachment 1037755

legs back on both of em

meanwhile out on field a 10yr old wilt showed em how it's done

View attachment 1037756

kinda wish she'd had single in some ways not sure he can handle twins at her age

I had a great old ewe, very prolific, that scanned for quads (only ewe in the flock to do so) at the age of ten. Had to mollycoddle her a bit until lambing. Two live, two dead. Lifted one and left her one to rear but she got sick and I had to lift that one too. The daft old bugger shouted for it for days. Couldn't face sending her to Boswells, she had a couple of years of retirement here.

 

[yellowbelly]

Couldn't face sending her to Boswells, she had a couple of years of retirement here.

Aawww, we always knew you were a big old softie

 

[Woolless]

Aawww, we always knew you were a big old softie

In a few, very select cases. The pleasure I get from seeing them dotting about makes up for income foregone.