Well we actually got a live twin of good strong lambs yesterday that are going well, after the rest of the sh!t this time it is like a miracle
The happy lambing thread
- Thread starter jemski
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- Montgomeryshire
Must be about to start properly again. Ewe lamb with triplets born yesterday morning. All up and about when I got out and she followed me out of the shed like an old pro.
She's the first daughter of a bought in stock sire 2 years ago, so always relieved to see when they don't have bottle tits or are the bitches from hell (as I had once).
She's the first daughter of a bought in stock sire 2 years ago, so always relieved to see when they don't have bottle tits or are the bitches from hell (as I had once).
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- Mendips Somerset
had one fostered single lamb this year 10-14 days old , symptoms like ccn stretched out head back peddling in main pen , treated combivit and oxy but no improvement few days later , son feeding ewes asked what was up , i thought by then must have been born with brain problem and said "it will die dont worry" , but he did have a go with a course pen strep , next day looked brighter , and a week later staggering around pen having a drink from bottle , looked pretty poor by then though , even the foster ewe stayed with him right through and he went back suckling ,
now you cant tell him from others , milky ewe ment he has caught up and gone on as well . Miracles do happen sometimes !
now you cant tell him from others , milky ewe ment he has caught up and gone on as well . Miracles do happen sometimes !
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- Somerset
Well we actually got a live twin of good strong lambs yesterday that are going well, after the rest of the sh!t this time it is like a miracle
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- Somerset
Larry looking very happy
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
Happier than lassie!! Cheer up dude, your a farm dog!!
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- Somerset
That's Fred, he is a worried, grumpy dog
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
Started today. First time mum, chose sheltered spot & decent weather!!
Got a big group in today to go through the footbath. Little barstewards ran rings round the dogs and I. They did not want to leave their field. Or go down the lane. Or go back out. I could have killed them all.
On the plus side they went straight through the footbath and I put a few of the biggest twins on the scales - they were hitting 17kg at a month old so pleased with that.
On the plus side they went straight through the footbath and I put a few of the biggest twins on the scales - they were hitting 17kg at a month old so pleased with that.
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- Bedfordshire
Just starting
Started the ewe lambs 2 weeks before the ewes, so should be well finished before the ewes are.
Started the ewe lambs 2 weeks before the ewes, so should be well finished before the ewes are.
Guiggs
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- Leicestershire
3 left to go, had some cracking lambs this year and plenty of ewe lambs for replacements. The week I had to help virtually every one that lambed for one reason or another is but a dim and distant memory!
Steel
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- Finley, Riverina, Australia
I have about 20 % lambs now so just getting going. Had 3 ewes today which had got down lambing. 1st had her lamb curled up against her belly. Took her and the lamb to the yards as most Merinos just run off without the lamb when you stand them up.
Next ewe was down with the lamb stuck. Easy pull and a very healthy lamb. Stuck it in front of her and she ignored me and started licking it. I was able to leave them in the paddock whic is ususual.
Next paddock there was a new born lamb near the gate. The mother was down about 200m away. Put both of them in the yards as the ewe was nuts as most Merinos are.
The best thing was the eagles and crows had not killed the lambs. Usually when the ewe is down the lambs are killed very quickly.
Next ewe was down with the lamb stuck. Easy pull and a very healthy lamb. Stuck it in front of her and she ignored me and started licking it. I was able to leave them in the paddock whic is ususual.
Next paddock there was a new born lamb near the gate. The mother was down about 200m away. Put both of them in the yards as the ewe was nuts as most Merinos are.
The best thing was the eagles and crows had not killed the lambs. Usually when the ewe is down the lambs are killed very quickly.
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Glorious day. Not too much happening. Just a quiet cruise round on the bike.
TexX ewes with (mostly) Suffolk lambs. There was a huge mob of lambs a playing on the steep banking, but i couldn't I get a picture as they did the grand national...
TexX ewes with (mostly) Suffolk lambs. There was a huge mob of lambs a playing on the steep banking, but i couldn't I get a picture as they did the grand national...
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
Looks like a beautiful part of the world mate. I wish I could persuade missus to move back to Snowdonia, do miss hills!!
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- Dumfries & Galloway
It would be better if i owned it
But aye i'm a proper hill boy, feel at home in/on them.
My hill is just a molehill compared to the Southern Uplands though. It's Gaelic name is Mullach - which literally translates as Small Hill. But there's no other hill between me, and the mountains in Cumbria across the Solway Firth. Which are white currently.
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
GrannyAching
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- Mynyddoedd Preseli
Big surprise and a tonne of luck today. Went out to check the ewe that was due yesterday (stole a ram lamb) and, just taking stroll through the next field really where all was totally serene two hours before, found the first of these looking mostly dead and buried in afterbirth with a very shell shocked ewe. I gave him a massive shake and a drain and then ran in for the resus' bottle by the time I came back he'd revived a bit and she was lick. The second was explosively delivered and the ewe was well out of it and ignoring her so I chivvied her up and she did start cleaning up and quickly mothered them properly. However, they are at least 5 days early and possibly as much as 10 and absolutely tiny.
They did get up and feed with very full little bellies but they were cold and shivery by late afternoon despite full bellies so I cracked and brought them in. The smallest weighs 2.5kg and I would think the other is 3 or just over. Ewe's in reasonable condition so hope this might be as bad as my suicide squad get this year - cos hey, they are alive - and that I haven't got a field full on miniature lambs to come.
It's the smallest one standing up. The boy is bigger but wobblier!
They did get up and feed with very full little bellies but they were cold and shivery by late afternoon despite full bellies so I cracked and brought them in. The smallest weighs 2.5kg and I would think the other is 3 or just over. Ewe's in reasonable condition so hope this might be as bad as my suicide squad get this year - cos hey, they are alive - and that I haven't got a field full on miniature lambs to come.
It's the smallest one standing up. The boy is bigger but wobblier!
We had a lamb last year that was the smallest of a set of trips, smallest lamb I have ever seen, never weighed her, but if she had weighed a kilo I would have been amazed. She was literally the size of my hand but had the strongest suck reflex ever. Had to be careful not to allow her to over indulge in milk as she ended up looking like a rugby ball after feeding. Out of all the pets she was the toughest, most bolshy and went on to do fine. She was of course named Tiny.
GrannyAching
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- Mynyddoedd Preseli
Forgot to say - these are of course Bitw and Titw! (which I have just found out literally translate as insignificant- seems a bit harsh.) I think these will be fine and probably would have done outside, too - I just hate losing liveborns.