The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Clive on May 04, 2014, 09:22:14 am
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Well, today saw our last lamb born, three weeks after the penultimate lambs. Clearly Spot held out till the last minute!
We have had a real rollercoaster ride, starting with the assisted birth of two dead and putrefying lambs ( mum subsequently died despite treatment), two sets of triplets. Loss of two lambs one very cold night and losing a ewe very suddenly and unexpectedly (i suspect hypocalcaemia but she died too quickly to get a vet to her :(), and a ewe who went dry after a week! This has left us with 5 lambs on the bottle out of 9 total. I guess it was the lambing from hell but we have learned a lot. I'd like to thank the contributors here as TAS was my main source of advice. I didnt post much but lurking here helped a load!
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Sounds like you had a pretty hard time of it Clive. It's a real roller coaster ride isn't it. Hopefully your healthy lambs are helping to make up for the issues you have had.
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Sorry your lambing was not a carefree one :bouquet: . We still have one to lamb (hopefully today) so we are not out of the woods yet! :fc:
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It'll be better next year.
We've still got one to go - tomorrow morning, I hope. Her feet are so awful (she's not lame though) they are driving me nuts. Really looking forward to getting them trimmed up. And to the last lamb, of course :)
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Just finished here tonight 5 ewes 9 lambs. 6 girlies and 3 boys. All over in 9 days. Clever Arnie did well for his first year. :sheep: