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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Pasture Farm on March 20, 2012, 06:41:47 am

Title: Last Lamb
Post by: Pasture Farm on March 20, 2012, 06:41:47 am

Our last Ewe LLanwenog/Hampshire has just had her lamb.

And not to bad even though it was breach, she laid very still whilst i pushed the lamb back flicked its first leg back and then the second gave a gentle pull on its back legs on her next contraction and out it came :thumbsup:

Ive had two with the heads back and two breach this year, strange as ive never had any that have been wrongly presented in the past, just one of those things i suppose. Its at this point when everything you have read in books and on fourums about wrong presentation pays off ;)

Title: Re: Last Lamb
Post by: Rosemary on March 20, 2012, 09:12:10 am

Well done - bet you're looking forward to a good night's sleep  ;D We start this weekend coming.

Title: Re: Last Lamb
Post by: Haylo-peapod on March 20, 2012, 10:12:52 am

Well done you!!  :trophy:
Sounds like you have come through your challenges with flying colours.
You did well to get the breaches out quickly.
Pleased it all went well.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Last Lamb
Post by: wellies on March 20, 2012, 05:27:11 pm

well done, you must be ready for some sleep  :thumbsup: We have one more to go and then I might just sleep for a week  ;D

Title: Re: Last Lamb
Post by: hexhammeasure on March 20, 2012, 08:42:31 pm

must be the year for presentation problems, we've had a lot more head only and head with 1 leg presentations this year. no idea why - we fed less and the lambs are slightly smaller and I was hoping to have an easier lambing!!