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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Elissian on March 27, 2011, 11:19:48 pm

Title: finally!
Post by: Elissian on March 27, 2011, 11:19:48 pm: Great excitment, Lardy, my ewe with the enormous udder is the first to give birth. She's had 3 enormous triplets about 20 mins ago, all up and doing well, I've taken photos but i haven't a clue how to put them on here so may have to wait till next weekend when my daughter is home. i have a feeling it may be a busy night
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Post by: Fleecewife on March 27, 2011, 11:29:21 pm: Well done - that's great news :) :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
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Post by: Rosemary on March 28, 2011, 06:30:05 am: Well done! Congratulations ;D
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Post by: Madcow on March 28, 2011, 08:37:33 am: good for Lardy, no wonder she was big ! congrats all round :D
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Post by: Freddiesfarm on March 28, 2011, 09:23:43 am: Well done - you can finally breathe again!
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Post by: Elissian on March 28, 2011, 04:55:39 pm: We weighed them, first a ram lamb 3.5kg, ewe 4.2kg last another ram 4.3kg. I don't know why we didn't weigh in pounds but i converted it and she was carrying 26 and a half pounds of lambs inside her no wonder she was huge. she delivered them really easily hardly seemed to push at all. My middle child was 9lbs that's nearly three of her, amazing.
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Post by: ellisr on March 28, 2011, 05:13:15 pm: That is 3 little whoppers well done Lardy
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Post by: andywalt on March 28, 2011, 09:02:13 pm: wow whoppers well gone, congrats pics please
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Post by: Elissian on April 03, 2011, 12:45:50 pm: I'm afraid I only have a zoom lense, so it is very difficult to get a good picture. Here are the triplets, 20 minutes old.
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Post by: andywalt on April 03, 2011, 12:49:06 pm: Ahh cute and they all look large and strong even tho they are triplets !! what breed are they? i cant see the ewe?
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Post by: Elissian on April 03, 2011, 01:00:05 pm: They're wiltshire horn, amazingly by the following morning one of the boys already appeared to have little horns, i could feel the lumps when he was born.
Here's a pic of our latest to be turned out. We've had 3 sets of twins since the triplets, it's going well but they're taking their time.
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Post by: robate55 on April 03, 2011, 03:25:26 pm: Well done that sheep. Lovely big lambs.
Rose
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Post by: andywalt on April 03, 2011, 09:04:30 pm: ahh they look great and a nice close fleece, is this the breed that dont need sheering?

Well done, keep up the good work

we have had 5 ewes lamb in two days, so we just have 7 left over the next 2 weeks
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Post by: Elissian on April 04, 2011, 07:48:33 pm: that's correct no shearing, they do look a bit of a mess when they're shedding. I notice you have romneys, what are their feet like? our ground is quite marshy in the winter and i think i will be breeding for sound feet as some of ours get very long hooves by lambing time. we have a zwartbles pet sheep and her feet cope with the wet very well.
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Post by: MrsJ on April 04, 2011, 10:07:35 pm: We have Wiltshires and they do look scruffy when they're shedding but such a lovely creamy colour underneath. I'm trying to gather the wool for felting but I've never tried it before so it will be a bit of an experiment.
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Post by: andywalt on April 04, 2011, 10:28:24 pm: Yes there feet are great, I am hoping to produce a better ewe x with better feet, tats where my romney ram comes in, may take a few years tho :)
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Post by: Elissian on April 04, 2011, 10:35:53 pm: We have a lot of jackdaws walking around with their beaks full of wool, i watched one today standing on the sheeps back helping herself.