The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Bionic on March 27, 2013, 12:34:41 pm
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To put my ewe with her ramb lamb (just over a week old) out with two other ewes. One of these ewes never went to the ram and the other had her lamb born dead a couple of weeks ago.
At the moment these two ewes are with a pregnant ewe but she is due to come inside as she should lamb sometime in the next week. The pregnant ewe will have the company of another ewe who is due this weekend.
I am trying to work it out so that everyone has some company.
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Sounds good :thumbsup:
I know it's not always easy with small numbers!
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Thankyou SITN :thumbsup:
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It is hard with small numbers (both sheep and cattle ::) ) but we mix and match depending on what's going on and since they all actually know each other anyway, they're usually fine.
Otherwise you end up with loads of tiny groups taking up paddocks.
We've got our 6 twin bearing ewes in the barn; the three single bearing ewes and the three ewe lambs in the paddock with field shelter and the barren ewe with the tup and wether. The three singles will be coming into the barn on Friday and the barren ewe will go in with the ewe lambs. As they lamb, the ewes and lambs will join the ewe lambs and Nellie. I don't think Ryelands are high stress sheep tbh ;)