Lambing 2019

[dunk999]

A ewe of mine which lambed on 2nd March gave birth again on 14th March to another healthy lamb! Just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced something similar? Have kept sheep for over thirty years but this was new for me! She initially had some colostrum after the first lambing but after a couple of days it was apparent she didn't have sufficient milk so first lamb has been bottle fed. Now though second lamb is doing well on good milk supply!

Did you see her lamb the first lamb sound like she might have stolen the first?

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

A ewe of mine which lambed on 2nd March gave birth again on 14th March to another healthy lamb! Just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced something similar? Have kept sheep for over thirty years but this was new for me! She initially had some colostrum after the first lambing but after a couple of days it was apparent she didn't have sufficient milk so first lamb has been bottle fed. Now though second lamb is doing well on good milk supply!

Did she pinch the first lamb, was it definitely hers ?

 

[Eiddwen]

Yes - absolutely no doubt about it ! I witnessed them both arrive so was pretty amazed by it and that is why I'm so curious to find out if someone else has experienced similar.

 

[spin cycle]

The plan was to have that bloody big sheep and his mates fat and away before lambing, but failed , and the price has fell through the floor. These lambs better be a good trade later on

don't give us the old 'sob story'.....look at then top o the range lambing pens

 

[Blossomdearie]

I thought id keep the tradition and post a thread for lambing 2019. So we can all post our good and bad of lambing, some pics would be a good, ill be lambing 700 ewes this year, across two farms, 50 pedigree blue texel ewes, 300 pedigree Llyens, 150 Welsh mules to texel tup, and 200 texel crosses to lleyen tup starting next week.so now I’m rushing around trying to get everything ready. Along with trying to get as much sleep as I can. What does every one else have left to do before they start to lamb. I will send some pics of the first lambs. As they come. good luck to every one.

Hi, I was wondering how much a trained shepherd should get paid for doing lambing season?

 

[CopperBeech]

Hi, I was wondering how much a trained shepherd should get paid for doing lambing season?

Varies with experience, responsibility, area etc.

Typically people get paid from £8-£15 an hour.

Some people will always think they are worth more.

 

[puppet]

Yes - absolutely no doubt about it ! I witnessed them both arrive so was pretty amazed by it and that is why I'm so curious to find out if someone else has experienced similar.

25 years ago my mother had a ewe lamb 3 weeks apart. Saw them both lamb and she knew every sheep. Internet has more examples.
More common will be superfecundity with a ewe in lamb to 2 tups. I lambed a blackie with a mule and blackie lamb. If I had not I would have given the blackie to another ewe which had just had a single blackie.

 

[Eiddwen]

25 years ago my mother had a ewe lamb 3 weeks apart. Saw them both lamb and she knew every sheep. Internet has more examples.
More common will be superfecundity with a ewe in lamb to 2 tups. I lambed a blackie with a mule and blackie lamb. If I had not I would have given the blackie to another ewe which had just had a single blackie.

Thanks for this info interesting to know, I will try and find more on the internet. I have had ewes with twins of one Texel and one Suffolk lamb in the past when we've put two different tups in at the same time but they have always arrived together!

 

[Gator]

Can't 'like' that. Terrible for them

same here, carries on here much longer could be the same

 

[aangus]

I'm sure I've got a lamb with watery mouth, is there much I can do apart from a jag of AB?

 

[CopperBeech]

I'm sure I've got a lamb with watery mouth, is there much I can do apart from a jag of AB?

Alamycin
Keep Warm and Hydrated
Spectam
Soapy Water enema

 

[aangus]

Alamycin
Keep Warm and Hydrated
Spectam
Soapy Water enema

Is that to stomach tube the soapy water, what home mix could I use to rehydrate

 

[CopperBeech]

I use a stomach tube and a wee squeeze bottle and gentle squirt some fairly liquid and warm water solution up its bum and usually a few mins later the blocked crap comes out.

Re rehydration I just stomach tube it some of mums milk or colostrum or whatever

 

[aangus]

I use a stomach tube and a wee squeeze bottle and gentle squirt some fairly liquid and warm water solution up its bum and usually a few mins later the blocked crap comes out.

Re rehydration I just stomach tube it some of mums milk or colostrum or whatever

How far should I put the tube up it's bum

 

[CopperBeech]

Only a little way, probably a cm or so. Just be gentle and don’t ram it up, and be gentle squeezing the warm water and make sure it isn’t too hot! It will just flush it out.

 

[CopperBeech]

I mainly do it when you can see the lamb kind of straining and looking hunched with a big belly and if it isn’t crapping

 

[aangus]

Apologies for all the questions but how many mls

 

[Steel]

I have a ewe with twins and one of her teats was large and not drunk from. I tried to milk it out, but there is no hole in the end of the teat. What should I do. Would trying to poke a hole with a neadle just introduce infection. Is it best just to leave it alone. It is most likely the result of a nick by a shearer.

 

[aangus]

View attachment 777632 I have a ewe with twins and one of her teats was large and not drunk from. I tried to milk it out, but there is no hole in the end of the teat. What should I do. Would trying to poke a hole with a neadle just introduce infection. Is it best just to leave it alone. It is most likely the result of a nick by a shearer.

I would leave it, you would just introduce infection if you pricked it. Mark and cull.

 

[Jerry]

After last nights arrivals I’m down to the last ewe standing. Bet she crossed her legs for ages!!