The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: NLL on January 07, 2011, 05:58:54 pm
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Finally got pictures of my big lad born Tuesday night!
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a143/anna_tucker/lamb3.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a143/anna_tucker/lamb2.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a143/anna_tucker/lamb.jpg)
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Oh he's gorgeous :love:
I don't keep sheep or know a whole lot about them (we did have a few 'pet' ones when we were younger) but looking at this is making me reconsider ;)
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oh i feeling broody, I'm considering getting some lambs in the spring, he is gorgeous, so sweet :sheep: :wave:
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And he'll be soooo tasty. ;D
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nooooooooooooooooooooo, good breeding ram.
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Congrats . We dont lamb till May!
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Nice pictures!
Just keep cleaning his backend with warm water, otherwise he might gunk up pretty quick.
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hes really gunky at the moment which we keep cleaning, god the smell ::)
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lovely! :)
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hes really gunky at the moment which we keep cleaning, god the smell ::)
Don't clean him too much - we overdid the cleaning once, the lamb smelt beautiful but was promptly rejected by the mother.
Since then we just clean the worst off, but not enough to change the smell.
John
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Well only warm water will be fine, and do it next to the ewe. I last year took a lamb quickly into the house, washed him off and brought him back - less than 5 minutes, it took a few hours before the ewe allowed him to suckle again....
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okay dokey, thanks for the advice.is this just a longwool problem or a lamb problem.we are tempted to vaseline the underside of the tail, oh the smell.
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I know absolutely nothing about sheep & lambs .... but we were starting to get concerned about our newborn goat kid, and his very hairy dirty bum, but it cleared up soon when he began nibbling hay & anyway it was a b*gger to try and get off him!
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Great photos, congrats, a couple of weeks and ill hopfully have plenty to post on here for all to see !!!!
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No all lambs have that problem, even if you dock the tail or the naturally short tailed ones, like Shetlands. This stuff will become more like normal sheep p** when he starts to eat hay/grass (well hay in your case I guess, not much grass around). It is like this because he only takes in milk at the moment.
I have found that my goats are much better at cleaning their kids' backends than the ewes, but there is less wool in the way....
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I remember Geraldine trying, but it was quite difficult stuff to get off!
sorry, hijacked the thread :/ ;)
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this also happens when lambs/sheep are transfered onto foggage(after silage or hay) and they can swell up with the excrement building up in there gut the only solution is to unseal the tail and anus smelly and messy
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just weighed Nipna King Edward, he weighed 16lbs at birth and 14 days later he weighs 19.8lbs.His mum is doing him well I think.