The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: andywalt on January 22, 2011, 09:53:07 am
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My faith is restored..... triplets with no intervention, woooppeeeee and sucking within 15 mins I cant believe it !!
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Suckling new born lambs are just adorable........as are piglets ;D :pig: :sheep: Well done you, you must be feeling very chuffed with yourself ;D and quite rightly.
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well done the wether has helped a lot with a nother week off good wether they should grow well
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Well done Andy :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :wave:
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Well done sheep! Congratulations, andy (he didn't actually DO anything ;D)!
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Fantastic - they do look great - can't wait for the next batch of pictures
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congrats :)
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Triplets, fantastic!! They look gorgeous too. How many more to lamb for this session? You must have a good percentage. :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
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well done they are lovely :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :wave:
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well done all, we are hopeing for lambing with no intervention too
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Well done you (and ewe) 150% lambing average, or is that 300% maths was never my strong point.
If any of them are girls the genetics go on. My first ewe that tripled had two girls which I kept and both had triplets!
All the best
Sue
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Yes way to go sheep. Lovely to see healthy lambs. Makes me impatient as ours are'nt due for 2 months
Rose
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;D ;D ;D ;D :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
so far twins and now triplets and all boys !!!! I have another 8 to lamb in this batch and then another 13 for the beginning of april. I am really enjoying it, tomorrow we will let the first ewe out in the field for the day only, we have built a wind break / shelter for them to have some cover I will take my camera so will have some decent photos, my phone isnt that good for photos as you can see !!
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Are you going to leave all three on the ewe to rear?
I don't like triplets... I prefer to take one off the ewe, and that means lots of bottle feeding and is expensive. Hopefully this year I have enough goatsmilk to keep any "spare" ones, but all that bottlewashing....(for the goat kids too...)
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Actually the ewe has a large udder and is very milky, if I am lucky to get a single from another ewe very soon, I can take one of the triplets and see if I can get her to odopt it after smothering in amniotic fluid. We will see, once bottle fed they get very humanised and im not too keen on that, more like a pet.
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Congratulations, Andy!
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If ewe is milky....leave well alone! Sheep that are fed well can do triplets with ease....I have never taken triplets of a good big ewe with 2 working teats on good grub.....totally unnecessary unless you want a lot of hassle!
If on the otherhand you had several ewes all lambing at the same tine like in a big commercial flock it is v easy to take a triplet and give it to a single mum.
Why make yourself more work?
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Well done to ewe all ;) ;) ;)
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Ha ha nice one Sandy...
Woollyshepard
yes as she was milky I hope that ive done the right thing, they all seem to be doing well, was a bit of a shame tho, finding the single this morning, if I had been there I may well have transfered one over into her fluid to adopt her, but as I hadnt scanned any even if I was there it wouldnt have been clear that she was having a single anyway, I could have been waiting for another and then it doesnt come so...
another question for you woolly shepard but I will post a new topic ok