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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Daisys Mum on June 17, 2016, 08:26:28 pm

Title: Surprise lambs!
Post by: Daisys Mum on June 17, 2016, 08:26:28 pm
This year I decided not to lamb as I was going to be short of grass but it seems that I had a very enterprising tup lamb and one of my ewes give birth to 2 tup lambs last night. It seems that my other 3 are pregnant too. All due any day now as there was only one day and night that he could have caught them. At least we have plenty grass now.
Title: Re: Surprise lambs!
Post by: landroverroy on June 17, 2016, 08:49:05 pm
 The best laid plans ......... :innocent:

 Same thing happened to me, but in my case it resulted in 2 ewes having twins in mid Jan, when lambing was planned for mid April.
 Fortunately I had enough grass for the 6 of them so didn't need to feed them a load of concentrates, and I sold the lambs fat a few weeks ago at £90 apiece. So quite a lucrative "mishap".
Title: Re: Surprise lambs!
Post by: silkwoodzwartbles on June 17, 2016, 09:24:36 pm
lol oops!